problems with syslogd

[Oron Peled]

On Wednesday, 9 בJune 2010 15:14:44 Amit Aronovitch wrote:
> Recently I stopped getting any messages in /var/log/messages (and probably
> ...
> 1) /etc/syslogd.conf is debian's standard, seems to support
> /var/log/messages (as ever):
> 
> *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
>     auth,authpriv.none;\
>     cron,daemon.none;\
>     mail,news.none        -/var/log/messages

Maybe the filename is separated from the selector by spaces instead
of tabs? It is important (at least in legacy syslogd), because
spaces are allow withing the selector expression.

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