[PLUG] BSD -> Linux question.

[adelmand]

Got it.  The auth and authpriv messages weren't going anywhere, so

 auth,authpriv.*                                    /var/log/authlog

Did the trick just fine.

Thanks,

Dan


on 2/27/01 6:41 PM, Diego Zamboni at zamboni@cerias.purdue.edu wrote:

>> What's /var/log/authlog?  AFAIK, BSD and Linux both use /var/log/auth.log.
> 
> It may be an OpenBSD'ism. In response to the original question: look
> for where auth.info messages get recorded in /etc/syslog.conf. In
> OpenBSD, there's a line that says:
> 
> auth.info                                    /var/log/authlog
> 
> The syslog facilities and priorities are (kind of) standard, so
> you should be able to see where the messages are going on any system.
> 
> --Diego
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