Re: postgres, syslog and freeBSD

1) syslog.conf:
!postgres
*.* /var/log/postgresql.log

2) in your root shell:
touch /var/log/postgresql.log

3) don't forget newsyslog.conf

4) don't forget man syslog.conf

On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:35:19 -0600
kevin kempter <kevin(at)kevinkempterllc(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi list;
>
> I'm trying to get postgres & syslog to get along with no luck. I'm
> running freeBSD7 and postgres 8.3.1
>
> Here's my postgres setup
>
> log_destination = 'syslog'
> #logging_collector = off
> syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
> syslog_ident = 'postgres'
> silent_mode = on
> log_min_duration_statement = 0
>
>
> Here's my /etc/syslog.conf file:
>
>
> security.* /var/log/security
> auth.info;authpriv.info /var/log/auth.log
> mail.info /var/log/maillog
> lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs
> ftp.info /var/log/xferlog
> cron.* /var/log/cron
> *.=debug /var/log/debug.log
> *.emerg *
> # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/
> console.log
> #console.info /var/log/console.log
> # uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/
> all.log
> # touch /var/log/all.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work
> #*.* /var/log/all.log
> # uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost
> #*.* @loghost
> # uncomment these if you're running inn
> # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
> # news.err /var/log/news/news.err
> # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice
> !startslip
> *.* /var/log/slip.log
> !ppp
> *.* /var/log/ppp.log
> LOCAL0.* /var/log/pgsql
>
>
>
> I dont see any files show up in /var/log
>
> what am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
> /Kevin
>
>

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