Thanks for the help.
The %$#@^ man page just says to place a "-`` in front of the selection, not
bothering to define what a selection is. Without an example, (why bother) I
was just guessing. Now, there should be no space between the "-`` and the
file name?
Joel
On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 08:37:48PM -0400, Douglas J. Hunley wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 September 2001 20:25, Joel Hammer babbled:
> > As I sit here typing away, my hard drive is constantly going on and off as
> > those nasty worms try to infect (invade?) my computer.
> > There is a way to prevent immediate syncing to the disk with syslog, but I
> > can't figure it out and there are no examples in the man pages.
> > The man page says to put a "-" in front of the selection. I did that, and
> > things may have slowed down, but the drive is still pretty active. Does the
> > entry below seem about right?
> >
> > -*.info;news,mail,authpriv,auth.none /var/log/messages
>
> er... try this instead ;)
> *.info;news,mail,authpriv,auth.none -/var/log/messages
>
> I think you'll get much better results..
>
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