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246 lines
7.2 KiB
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.\" syslog.conf - syslogd(8) configuration file
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.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Martin Schulze <Martin.Schulze@Linux.DE>
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.\" Modified for Minix porting by G. Falzoni <gfalzoni@inwind.it>
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.\"
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.\" This file is part of the sysklogd package, a kernel and system log daemon.
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.\"
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.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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.\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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.\" (at your option) any later version.
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.\"
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.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
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.\"
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.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
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.\"
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.\" Local macros
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.de Xr
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.BR \\$1 (\\$2)\\$3
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.de LB
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.\" end local macros
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.TH SYSLOG.CONF 5 "1 January 1998"
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.SH NAME
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syslog.conf \- syslogd(8) configuration file
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.I syslog.conf
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file is the main configuration file for the
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.Xr syslogd 8
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which logs system messages on *nix systems. This file specifies rules
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for logging. For special features see the
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.Xr syslogd 8
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manpage.
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Every rule consists of two fields, a
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.I selector
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field and an
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.I action
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field. These two fields are separated by one or more tabs.
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The selector field specifies a pattern of facilities and
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priorities belonging to the specified action.
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Lines starting with a hash mark (``#'') and empty lines are ignored.
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.SH SELECTORS
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The selector field itself again consists of two parts, a
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.I facility
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and a
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.IR priority ,
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separated by a period (``.'').
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Both parts are case insensitive and can also be specified as decimal
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numbers, but don't do that, you have been warned. Both facilities and
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priorities are described in
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.BR syslog (3).
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The names mentioned below correspond to the similar
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.BR LOG_ -values
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in
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.IR /usr/include/syslog.h .
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The
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.I facility
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is one of the following keywords:
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.BR auth ", " authpriv ", " cron ", " daemon ", " kern ", " lpr ", "
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.BR mail ", " mark ", " news ", " security " (same as " auth "), "
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.BR syslog ", " user ", " uucp " and " local0 " through " local7 .
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The keyword
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.B security
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should not be used anymore and
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.B mark
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is only for internal use and therefore should not be used in
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applications. Anyway, you may want to specify and redirect these
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messages here. The
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.I facility
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specifies the subsystem that produced the message, i.e. all mail
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programs log with the mail facility
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.BR "" ( LOG_MAIL )
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if they log using syslog.
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The
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.I priority
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is one of the following keywords, in ascending order:
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.BR debug ", " info ", " notice ", " warning ", " warn " (same as "
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.BR warning "), " err ", " error " (same as " err "), " crit ", "
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.BR alert ", " emerg ", " panic " (same as " emerg ).
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The keywords
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.BR error ", " warn " and " panic
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are deprecated and should not be used anymore. The
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.I priority
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defines the severity of the message
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.PP
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The behavior of the original BSD syslogd is that all messages of the
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specified priority and higher are logged according to the given
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action. This
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.BR syslogd (8)
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behaves the same, but has some extensions.
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.PP
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In addition to the above mentioned names the
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.BR syslogd (8)
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understands the following extensions:
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.LB 5 "*" "An asterisk (``*'') before the period stands for all facilities.
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.LB 5 "none" "The keyword none stands for no priority of the given facility.
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.PP
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Multiple selectors may be specified for a single
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.I action
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using the semicolon (``;'') separator. Remember that each selector in
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the
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.I selector
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field is capable to overwrite the preceding ones. Using this
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behavior you can exclude some priorities from the pattern.
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.SH ACTIONS
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The action field of a rule describes the abstract term
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``logfile''. A ``logfile'' need not to be a real file, btw. The
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.Xr syslogd 8
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provides the following actions.
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.SS Regular File
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Typically messages are logged to real files. The file has to be
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specified with full pathname, beginning with a slash ``/''.
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.SS Terminal and Console
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If the file you specified is a tty, special tty-handling is done, same
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with
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.IR /dev/console .
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.SS Remote Machine
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This release does not implement
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remote logging, i.e. the ability to send messages to a remote host running
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.Xr syslogd 8 .
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To forward messages to another host, prepend the hostname
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with the at sign (``@'').
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.SS List of Users
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Usually critical messages are also directed to ``root'' on that
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machine. You can specify a list of users that shall get the message by
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simply writing the login. You may specify more than one user by
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separating them with commas (``,''). If they're logged in they
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get the message. Don't think a mail would be sent, that might be too
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late.
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.SS Everyone logged on
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Emergency messages often go to all users currently online to notify
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them that something strange is happening with the system. To specify
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this
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.IR wall (1)-feature
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use an asterisk (``*'').
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.SH EXAMPLES
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Here are some example, partially taken from a real existing site and
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configuration. Hopefully they rub out all questions to the
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configuration, if not, drop me (Joey) a line.
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.IP
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.nf
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# Store critical stuff in critical
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#
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*.crit /var/adm/critical
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.fi
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.LP
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This will store all messages with the priority
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.B crit
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in the file
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.IR /var/adm/critical .
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.IP
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.nf
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# The tcp wrapper loggs with mail.info, we display
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# all the connections on tty12
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#
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mail.info /dev/tty12
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.fi
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.LP
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This directs all messages that uses
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.BR mail.info " (in source " LOG_MAIL " | " LOG_INFO )
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to
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.IR /dev/tty12 ,
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the 12th console.
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.IP
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.nf
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# Log all mail.info and news.info messages to info
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#
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mail,news.info /var/adm/info
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.fi
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.LP
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This will extract all messages that come either with
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.BR mail.info " or with " news.info
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and store them in the file
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.IR /var/adm/info .
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.IP
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.nf
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# Emergency messages will be displayed using wall
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#
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*.emerg *
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.fi
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.LP
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This rule tells the
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.B syslogd
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to write all emergency messages to all currently logged in users. This
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is the wall action.
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.IP
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.nf
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# Messages of the priority alert will be directed
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# to the operator
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#
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*.alert root,joey
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.fi
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.LP
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This rule directs all messages with a priority of
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.B alert
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or higher to the terminals of the operator, i.e. of the users ``root''
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and ``joey'' if they're logged in.
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.IP
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.nf
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*.* @finlandia
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.fi
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.LP
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This rule would redirect all messages to a remote host called
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finlandia. This is useful especially in a cluster of machines where
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all syslog messages will be stored on only one machine.
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.SH FILES
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.I /etc/syslog.conf
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Configuration file for
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.B syslogd
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.SH BUGS
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The effects of multiple selectors are sometimes not intuitive. For
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example ``mail.crit,*.err'' will select ``mail'' facility messages at
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the level of ``err'' or higher, not at the level of ``crit'' or
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higher.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR syslogd (8),
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.BR logger (1),
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.BR syslog (3)
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.SH AUTHORS
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The
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.B syslogd
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is taken from BSD sources, Greg Wettstein (greg@wind.rmcc.com)
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performed the port to Linux, Martin Schulze (joey@linux.de)
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made some bugfixes and added some new features.
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