On 15/12/13 05:43, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> So I thought I'd try to suppress these messages in syslog. Some googling >> and reading man (5) syslog.conf, I decided that the line > > On Debian Wheezy the default is now rsyslog which has replaced the > previous sysklogd package. AFAIK the rsyslog uses /etc/rsyslog.conf > not /etc/syslog.conf and the man page is rsyslog.conf not syslog.conf. > Which means you are probably still using the previous sysklogd > package. In which case you might try installing the new rsyslog as > that is the current maintenance track. I can't say that things will > work but since it is different software it might behave differently. > It might work. But the previous sysklogd should too. And if the new > rsyslog does not then at least it is the current package in Wheezy and > the maintainers would be available for bug reports. > > # apt-get install rsyslog > >> *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog >> was the culprit, and changed it to >> *.*;auth,authpriv.none;!mail.* -/var/log/syslog > > I didn't try it but it seems reasonable to me. > >> Unfortunately, now nothing gets logged to syslog; I would at least >> expect the usual crop of iptables reports, unless the baddies have given >> up for christmas. Mail is still logged to mail.log, so that's OK. > > You can always test by using the "logger" command. Try sending a > message there. > > $ logger -t foo "a test message" > >> Can anyone please tell me the correct way to go about this, please? > > What you did looked okay to me. But note that I didn't have time to > try it. > > Bob >
Well, just in case this turns up in the archives, I installed rsyslog to replace sysklog, and edited rsyslog.conf which made absolutely no difference. It turns out that the correct syntax was *.*;auth,authpriv.none;mail.!* -/var/log/syslog Well, Bah! I think *.*;auth,authpriv.none;mail.none -/var/log/syslog would have worked too, but I'm happy with the present setup. -- Tony van der Hoff | mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Ariège, France | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52bb1525....@vanderhoff.org
