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From: davest@daemon.UUCP (Dave Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: logging aliasing to errlog
Message-ID: <96@daemon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Nov-84 13:21:38 EST
Article-I.D.: daemon.96
Posted: Tue Nov 20 13:21:38 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 23-Nov-84 02:32:18 EST
References: <590@amd.UUCP>
Reply-To: davest@daemon.UUCP (Dave Stewart)
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In article <590@amd.UUCP> phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>I note that 2.10.2 logs aliasing of newsgroups (net.trivia to
>net.games.trivia, for example) in errlog. I would like to see
>this particular action logged in log, not errlog. I would like
>errlog to only indicate incidents that require human intervention,
>like the filesystem overflowing. Then I can make cron check for
>the presence of errlog on the machines I run but don't normally use.

	Sorry, Phil.  It looks like anything wriitten to errlog is
also written to log.  At least, that's the way the code looks, and
I have seen many examples as well in reality.  Admittedly, I have yet
to witness an aliasing happen ...
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