Re: [gentoo-user] Daemons log on Gentoo

[Mick]

On 03/06/06, Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@×××××.com> wrote:
> I'm using syslog-ng
>
> 2006/6/3, Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@×××××.com>:
> > On 6/3/06, Leandro Melo de Sales <leandroal@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >    I can't find /var/log/daemon... Every time a service is stopped or

I have this in my /var/log/ directory:
==============================
-rw-r-----  1 root    root     116223 Jun  3 18:08 daemon.log
==============================

In addition, check the extract from my /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf
(which created the daemon.log file in the first place):
==============================
options {
        chain_hostnames(off);
        sync(0);

        perm(0640);
        dir_perm(0750);
        create_dirs(yes);

[snip . . . ]
        stats(43200);
};

source src { unix-stream("/dev/log"); internal(); pipe("/proc/kmsg"); };
source kernsrc { pipe("/proc/kmsg"); };

[snip . . . ]
destination daemon { file("/var/log/daemon.log"); };

[snip . . . ]
#create filters
filter f_daemon { facility(daemon); };

[snip . . . ]
#connect filter and destination
log { source(src); filter(f_daemon); destination(daemon); };
==============================

Adding this in /etc/logrotate.conf ensures that the
/var/log/daemon.log file size does not get out of hand:
==============================
# when /var/log/daemon.log gets big
/var/log/daemon.log
{
    rotate 1
    weekly
    size=1M
}
==============================

Of course the latter is only relevant if you are using logrotate.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick
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