On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Carl Libra wrote:

> I want put logging for two deamons in to their own logfile. Now they are
> inserted into the messages.

Look at the manual pages for syslog.conf and syslogd.

> pptp.*     /var/log/pptp
> popa3d.*   /var/log/popa3d

You can't just make up your own facility names like that. Maybe you could
configure or patch these two programs to use some "local" facility; look
in the source code for "openlog" and change to something like:

 openlog("popa3d", LOG_PID, LOG_LOCAL3);

 openlog("pptp", LOG_PID, LOG_LOCAL4);

And then your config:

local3.*	/var/log/popa3d
local4.*        /var/log/pptp


I'd just let them log where they normally log to. They are clearly
labled and grep works fine.

Also, I believe there are syslog alternatives that you could use that can
separate log files by the "identifiers".

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/