Re: Why both?: /var/log/messages AND /var/log/pgsql.

From: Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: ow <oneway_111(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why both?: /var/log/messages AND /var/log/pgsql.
Date: 2003-11-29 17:56:45
Message-ID: 1070128604.7716.39.camel@linda.lfix.co.uk
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On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 13:32, ow wrote:
> --- ow <oneway_111(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:
> > pgSql 7.4.0 on RH7.3
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It appears that pgSql somehow logs messages to BOTH /var/log/messages and
> > /var/log/pgsql. I expected that it would only log to /var/log/pgsql.
> >
>
> It appears I forgot to add local0.none on the /var/log/messages line in
> /etc/syslog.conf. Once added it logs only to /var/log/pgsql.
>
> Strange though ... when I changed "local0" to "pgsql" in /etc/syslog.conf and
> /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf the logging stopped completely. Works with
> local0 though. Anyhow

The log-levels (panic,...info,...local0,...) are enumerated values
hardcoded in syslog; pgsql is not one of those, so syslog would not
recognise it or act on it.

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