On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 01:16:43PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2016/12/08 09:42, Landry Breuil wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i know this is in the examples section of syslog.conf(5), but i got
> > bitten by this again, so what do ppl thing about adding those 3 lines to
> > the default syslog.conf ?
> >
> > wont push for this, was just taunted by someone "i would OK a diff to
> > add an example to the default syslog.conf" :)
> >
> > Landry
> >
> > Index: etc/syslog.conf
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/etc/syslog.conf,v
> > retrieving revision 1.19
> > diff -u -r1.19 syslog.conf
> > --- etc/syslog.conf 26 Nov 2015 15:25:14 -0000 1.19
> > +++ etc/syslog.conf 8 Dec 2016 08:39:21 -0000
> > @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
> > # $OpenBSD: syslog.conf,v 1.19 2015/11/26 15:25:14 deraadt Exp $
> > #
> >
> > +# Uncomment these three lines to log messages from spamd(8) to its own
> > +# logfile, without being also logged in /var/log/daemon.
> > +# Note that the logfile has to be created beforehands.
> > +#!!spamd
> > +#daemon.info /var/log/spamd
> > +#!*
> > +
> > *.notice;auth,authpriv,cron,ftp,kern,lpr,mail,user.none
> > /var/log/messages
> > kern.debug;syslog,user.info
> > /var/log/messages
> > auth.info /var/log/authlog
> >
>
> I'm not sure if we need to tell people to create the file; at least
> we don't tell them to create files for other commented-out examples
> (uucp, doas).
>
> Slight tweaks to the english, plus I tweaked the doas example to
> try and make the difference clear between it and the first example
> ("instead of" vs "as well as").
Much betterer than my initial brokenglish version :)
