On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Kay wrote: > On 28/04/10 03:34, N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote: > >I'd like to stop postfix from scribbling to syslog. > [snip] > > >auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log > >*.*;auth,authpriv.none;mail.none -/var/log/syslog > > I have this: > > *.*;auth,authpriv.none,cron.none,mail.none -/var/log/syslog > > I don't know the significance of a comma versus a semi-colon, but > this works for me.
The difference between a comma and semi-colon is documented in the man page. The OP's problem is that for *his* distro, rsyslogd is running while he was editing *syslogd* configuration files. -- Sahil Tandon <sa...@freebsd.org>