Hi Damon,

Damon McMahon wrote on Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 12:26:07AM +1030:

> My Apple Airport Extreme wireless bridge forwards syslog messages of
> the following format using facility local0 to my OpenBSD syslogd(8)
> running in insecure -u mode thus:
> 
> Jan  1 13:29:53 dadsairport dadsairport admin: Connection accepted
> from ::ffff:192.168.0.4/52199.
> Jan  1 13:46:33 dadsairport dadsairport dot11: Installed unicast CCMP
> key for supplicant 00:1e:52:72:20:06
> 
> I can direct these to a separate logfile using the following line in
> syslog.conf(5):
> 
> local0.* /var/log/airport
> 
> These messages are also directed by default to /var/log/messages as
> they are included in this default line of syslog.conf:
> 
> *.notice;auth,authpriv,cron,ftp,kern,lpr,mail,user.none /var/log/messages
> 
> My question is how can these messages be excluded from /var/log/messages?

Wouldn't just changing that line too

*.notice;auth,authpriv,cron,ftp,kern,local0,lpr,mail,user.none /var/log/messages

do the job?

Yours,
  Ingo

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