[rsyslog] logging wildcards

david at lang.hm david at lang.hm
Fri Sep 4 02:05:04 CEST 2009


On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Joe Williams wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> I am trying to log everything (*.*) to /var/log/syslog but local*.*. I
> tried a couple different ways to do this but didn't find a solution. Is
> this possible? I have a couple services I want to log to their own file
> rather than syslog, messages, etc.

if you just do

*.* /var/log/syslog

that will write everything to that file

I'm not sure what you are trying to say when you say 'but local*.*' above.

David Lang



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