What is logged, to where, reports, and to whom.
Installed as the default Debian logging setup.
Change KLOGD line to read:
KLOGD="-c 5"
to turn off console messages for lower priority messages.
Technically, we should be changing the kernel.printk line in /etc/sysctl.conf instead, but that has not yet been tested.
Edit /etc/logrotate.conf to change the rotate option for /var/log/wtmp from 1 to 25, and /var/log/btmp from 1 to 13.
Add option dateext to change the naming convention of adding
generation numbers ".1", ".2", etc. to the "-yyyymmdd" format.
Also manually rename all existing log files to the new format.
Note this is the default in later releases.
Fix incorrect permissions for the /var/log/btmp entry
from 0660 to 0600.
Also chmod existing files to make the same change.
This is a well known bug fixed in later releases, but should be verified.
Everything at level of info other than kern.info and mail.info goes to /var/log/messages. That was accomplished with:
news.info;daemon.info;\
auth.info;authpriv.info;\
cron.info;syslog.info;\
user.info -/var/log/messages
OLD:
# /etc/syslog.conf Configuration file for syslogd. # # For more information see syslog.conf(5) # manpage. # # First some standard logfiles. Log by facility. # auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log *.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog #cron.* /var/log/cron.log daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log kern.* -/var/log/kern.log lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log mail.* -/var/log/mail.log user.* -/var/log/user.log uucp.* /var/log/uucp.log # # Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that # it is easy to write scripts to parse these files. # mail.info -/var/log/mail.info mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn mail.err /var/log/mail.err # Logging for INN news system # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit news.err /var/log/news/news.err news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice # # Some `catch-all' logfiles. # *.=debug;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none -/var/log/messages # # Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in. # *.emerg * # # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual # console I usually leave idle. # #daemon,mail.*;\ # news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\ # *.=debug;*.=info;\ # *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty8 # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option: # # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] # # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably # busy site.. # daemon.*;mail.*;\ news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\ *.=debug;*.=info;\ *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole