From 9821e627fe663843296ffbe946966ab0f77dfb73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: deuce <>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 04:54:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add note about not logging local3.* via /var/log/messages
 with details for BSD-based syslogd implementations.

---
 docs/sbbscon.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/sbbscon.txt b/docs/sbbscon.txt
index c0fb92f6e7..65ceeeab56 100644
--- a/docs/sbbscon.txt
+++ b/docs/sbbscon.txt
@@ -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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