Re: gconfd and /var/log/messages

["Kevin D. Knerr, Sr." <kknerrsr ptdprolog net>]

On 20 Nov, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Alexandra Walford <deeni altern org> writes: 
>> Can anyone point me to a FAQ (or advise me) about how I can stop this
>> from happening or at least how I change the file that gconfd logs to?
>> I use slackware 8.0, and the gconfd package is straight from the
>> slackware-8.0 directory on ftp.slackware.com.
> 
> Newer gconf does less of this; also, gconf is using the user.* syslog,
> which does not go to /var/log/messages in many distributions. Edit
> /etc/syslog.conf and take user.* out of the /var/log/messages line.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way for Slackers.

These are the active lines in /etc/syslog.conf:
	*.=info;*.=notice				/usr/adm/messages
	*.=debug					/usr/adm/debug
	*.err						/usr/adm/syslog

I haven't tried this, but I gather from the man page that adding
";user.none" would exclude messages from the user facility.

However, before I go about tweaking this, I'd appreciate seeing some
other examples so that I can prepare an appropriate Slackware-specific
GNOME FAQ on this.

Thanks!

Barthel
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