Am 23.03.2013 08:13, schrieb Noel Butler:
On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 03:28 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
maybe you should explain why not using syslog as everybody else
Why do you think you speak for everybody else? Because you sure as hell don't, so stop pretending to. WTF is in the air this week, it seems to contain a few self proclaimed god's who apparently know what everyone else does, or, at least thought they did
blablablanla
I too have always used dovecot logging to specific files for over a decade, I know plenty of others too
maybe you should RTFM, this is nothing you can't do easily with rsyslog and much more felxible as with any program option
# systemd-logind not in /var/log/messages :programname, isequal, "systemd-logind" -/var/log/secure :programname, isequal, "systemd-logind" ~
# log dhcpd in own file :programname, isequal, "dhcpd" -/var/log/dhcpd.log :programname, isequal, "dhcpd" ~ :programname, isequal, "vmnet-dhcpd" -/var/log/dhcpd.log :programname, isequal, "vmnet-dhcpd" ~
# log hostapd in own file :programname, isequal, "hostapd" -/var/log/hostapd.log :programname, isequal, "hostapd" ~
Anyone who knows anything about syslog on large production servers knows avoiding it is best practice, it's also about the only thing DJB and I ever agreed on
blablablanla
in large environments you even have your syslogd logging on a remote machine for auditing and security reasons