Re: Log File Maintainance

Neil Dugan wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 08:51 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
>
>>Inpreet Singh wrote:
>>
>>>syslog = 2 # range 0-2
>>>syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
>>>syslog_ident = 'postgres'
>>
>>You also need to update your syslog.conf and restart syslogd
>>
>>Add a line like:
>>local0.* /var/log/pgsql

> Saw this post and tried to setup the log info to be sent to a different
> file '/var/log/pgsql'. There was no trouble with this.
>
> I then thought I would use a more logical name than 'LOCAL0' for the
> facility name. However no matter what name I tried
> '/etc/init.d/postgresql' wouldn't restart the 'postmaster' program.

The local0/1/etc facilities are for "custom" applications logging to
syslog. You can see a list of valid facilities with "man syslog.conf"

HTH
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd