[NTLUG:Discuss] breaking up logfiles

[Jay Urish]

Cool! Thanks!


At 08:19 AM 2/16/00 , you wrote:
>Jay Urish wrote:
> >
> > Hey Gang,
> >
> > I want to break up my logfiles. I have looked at syslog.conf and
> > experimented a little but I can't make heads or tails of it.
> >
> > I would like for all the nameserver messages to go to a named.x file and
> > all the sshd stuff to go to a ssd.x file
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > TIA
>
>for SSHd, you can't by default...  now what you can do is this...
>in the sshd_config you need to add the line:
>SyslogFacility LOCAL7
>then in your /etc/syslog.conf you add the line:
>local7.*                /var/log/sshd
>restart both and it should work.  You can actually use local0 or local1
>or local2... etc...
>
>for named, I think we would have to hack the source to get it to log
>somewhere else, but I might have missed something.
>
>--
>%_=split';','f; Perl ;h;st a;o;ker;@;not;.;hac;u;her;d;ju';
>print map $_{$_}, split //,
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>
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Jay Urish
Network Engineer - Dallas Wide Area Networking L.L.C
www.dalwan.net