Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!uunet!convex!usenet From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: syslog.conf question Message-ID: <1991Jun05.184852.339@convex.com> Date: 5 Jun 91 18:48:52 GMT References: <1991Jun5.062908.27546@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> <1991Jun05.103823.3489@convex.com> Sender: usenet@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of armhold@porthos.rutgers.edu (George Armhold): :Perhaps I am reading you wrong, but what syslogd actually does is log :messages from the specified level up FROM that level, not TO it . ie :if you specify a level of "crit", you will get crit, alert, and emerg :all logged. Right -- I was standing on my head when I wrote that. :-) I had the up-down stuff reversed in my brain. --tom -- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist "So much mail, so little time."