On Friday 09 December 2005 01:00, Almut Behrens wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:01:53AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote: >> I've been running leafnode, which generates a lot of news.info syslog >> entries -- making up over 95% of /var/log/syslog -- so I want to stop >> logging news.info at all, but without interfering with anything else. >> >> I've read various man pages but I can't figure out how to subtract >> that from /var/log/syslog. > > If I were you I would try "news.!=info" (but I haven't tried actually, > so I can't tell whether it works :) I.e., try to modify this line > > *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog > *.*;auth,authpriv.none;news.!=info -/var/log/syslog > > If I'm reading syslog.conf(5) correctly, this should stop facility > 'news' with a priority exactly equal to 'info' from being logged to > /var/log/syslog.
That seems to be doing exactly what I want. Thanks very much! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]