changeset 587:b5392ab73f79

core/sysklogd: improve syslog.conf documentation
author David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr>
date Thu, 11 Jul 2019 11:32:54 +0200
parents 1218a8f753b6
children 2eb237dc6c9a
files core/sysklogd/syslog.conf
diffstat 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/core/sysklogd/syslog.conf	Mon Jul 08 20:35:00 2019 +0200
+++ b/core/sysklogd/syslog.conf	Thu Jul 11 11:32:54 2019 +0200
@@ -2,10 +2,20 @@
 # /etc/syslog.conf: sysklogd configuration
 #
 
-*.emerg						*
-kern.*						/var/log/kernel
-authpriv,auth.info				/var/log/auth
-mail.info					/var/log/mail
-cron.info					/var/log/cron
-*.info;authpriv,auth,mail,cron,kern.none	/var/log/messages
-*.=debug;kern.none				/var/log/debug
+# Authentication messages.
+auth.*                                          /var/log/auth
+
+# crond(8) related messages.
+cron.*                                          /var/log/cron
+
+# Kernel messages.
+kern.*                                          /var/log/kernel
+
+# Mail related messages.
+mail.*                                          /var/log/mail
+
+# All other messages go here.
+*.info;auth.none;cron.none;kern.none;mail.none  /var/log/messages
+
+# Emergency level messages to to all users.
+*.emerg                                         *