Re: What's wrong with this in /etc/syslog.conf ?


Dave (from the UK) wrote:
I am have written a C program to dump my file systems onto tape from my
Ultra 80 running Solaris 10 update 1.

The program writes some diagnostic information, such as barcodes via
syslog. I have added one line to /etc/syslog.conf

local1.debug /var/log/backup

with the hope of capturing the messages about the backups to a specific
file.

But this is generating an error message during boot, with
/var/adm/messages showing:

Feb 22 08:24:31 sparrow syslogd: line 12: unknown priority name "debug
/var/log/backup"

But I don't understand what is wrong with the line I have put in
/etc/syslog.conf. local1 is a valid facility, and debug is a valid
severity as defined in RFC 3164 - The BSD Syslog Protocol. So why is
Solaris complaining?

Here is the complete /etc/syslog.conf.

# cat /etc/syslog.conf
#ident "@(#)syslog.conf 1.5 98/12/14 SMI" /* SunOS 5.0 */
#
# Copyright (c) 1991-1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
# syslog configuration file.
#
# This file is processed by m4 so be careful to quote (`') names
# that match m4 reserved words. Also, within ifdef's, arguments
# containing commas must be quoted.
#
local1.debug /var/log/backup
*.err;kern.notice;auth.notice /dev/sysmsg
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit /var/adm/messages

*.alert;kern.err;daemon.err operator
*.alert root

*.emerg *

# if a non-loghost machine chooses to have authentication messages
# sent to the loghost machine, un-comment out the following line:
#auth.notice ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/authlog, @loghost)


#
# non-loghost machines will use the following lines to cause "user"
# log messages to be logged locally.
#
ifdef(`LOGHOST', ,
user.err /dev/sysmsg
user.err /var/adm/messages
user.alert `root, operator'
user.emerg *
)



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