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Commit 9821e627 authored by deuce's avatar deuce
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Add note about not logging local3.* via /var/log/messages with details

for BSD-based syslogd implementations.
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......@@ -148,6 +148,12 @@ To configure syslog and the LogFacility, a good default to use is
LogFacility=3 Then, in /etc/syslog.conf you will need to add the line:
local3.* /var/log/synchronet.log
Depending on how your vendor set up syslog.conf initially, you may also want
to exclude local3.* from other log files (Noteably /var/log/messages) how to
do this varies with your syslogd implementation, but for BSD based ones
(Which BSD and many Linux distros use) you would add ";local3.none" to the
end of the first field in the /var/log/messages line.
You will have to create this file manually initially by running:
touch /var/log/synchronet.log
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