>Number:         20733
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       would like a new feature with syslogd
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 15 19:22:00 PST 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Sameer
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
NetBSD pluto 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (FROGGIE2) #0: Thu Mar 13 05:33:44 PST 2003     austin@pluto:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/FROGGIE2 sparc
>Description:
It's not a problem, more something I'd like to see.

In FreeBSD you can isolate each syslog level to a specific file, instead of outputting every level above the specified level.  I know this is a bad explanation, so I'll give an example.

local0.alert    /var/log/local0

will write alert and emergency levels to /var/log/local0

If you need to evaluate the output for every single level, /var/log/local0 will become very unmanagable.  Hoever, with FreeBSD you can do the following:

local0.=alert    /var/log/local0 

This will only direct the alert level messages to /var/log/local0, making things much more managable.

This would be a nice feature to have in NetBSD.

Another feature that would be nice is the syslogd "-a" feature.  this allows syslog to record message from specific devices.  So "syslogd -a 192.168.1.1/24" will take only messages from that IP address and not take messages from any other IP address.


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