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23 is the hard coded constant for local7. They are identical. |
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facility(23) and facility(local7) mean the exact same thing. |
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On 12/16/2020 10:30 AM, David Haller wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> |
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> On Wed, 16 Dec 2020, Todd Goodman wrote: |
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>> I think you need a semi-colon inside and after the right curly brace ('}') |
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>> |
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>> You right braces are parentheses and not right curly braces too (maybe a cut |
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>> and paste issue?) |
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>> |
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>> FWIW, the following is what I use to separate my mail logs out and it works: |
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>> destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); }; |
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>> destination maillog { file("/var/log/maillog"); }; |
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>> |
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>> filter f_mail { facility(mail); }; |
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>> filter f_messages { not facility(mail); }; |
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>> |
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>> log { source(src); filter(f_mail); destination(maillog); }; |
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>> log { source(src); filter(f_messages); destination(messages); }; |
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>> On 12/15/2020 10:44 PM, Dan Egli wrote: |
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>>> Help me understand this, please? I have ISC dhcpd configured to log to |
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>>> syslog.local7 (since I don't see an option to force it into it's own log |
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>>> file). So I went into my syslog-ng file and created two filters, just |
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>>> like on the example page of syslog-ng.com: |
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>>> |
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>>> filter dhcpmsgs { facility(23) ); |
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>>> filter non_dhcp { NOT filter(dhcpmsgs) ) |
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> Also, where's that '23' coming from? Shouldn't that be |
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> filter dhcpmsgs { facility(local7); }; |
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> |
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> HTH, |
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> -dnh |
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> |
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