Klode,
	Thank you very much for your reply. Your piece of information is
helpful, and I respect you not having time to write out a syslog.conf
tutorial. Does anyone else have any help or links to help? I have
exhausted my searching resources (I know, on the internet that sounds
ridiculous) and would appreciate any pointers. Thanks!

-Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: Claude Morin [mailto:klodefactor at gmail dot com] 
Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:01 AM
To: Trevor B. Sullivan
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Question regarding syslogd configuration

Hi Trevor,

I don't have time to give you a tutorial, but I can warn you about one
common error: ensure that you always uses <TAB> characters in the
syslog.conf definition lines.  syslogd (at least, the versions I've
played with) gets very unhappy and will behave oddly if you use spaces
instead of tabs.

Hope this helps,
-klode


On 6/26/05, Trevor B. Sullivan <TSullivan at baxterwoodman dot com> wrote:

	Hello everyone,
	        I wasn't sure whether or not to post this to the FreeBSD
list
	(as that is the syslogd server I wish to log to) so I decided to
post
	here since the firewall (m0n0wall) is based on FreeBSD. Anyway,
my 
	question is this...I've been having a very rough time trying to
find a
	good explanation on configuring syslogd on FreeBSD and I have
enabled
	the logging on the firewall, but am unable to figure out how to
edit
	syslog.conf to make the firewall log to a separate file. I do
understand
	that some line similar to the guide here
	(http://sol4.net/rt314syslog.shtml) needs to go in there, but I
really 
	am looking for a decent *understanding* of how syslog.conf
works. I have
	read the man page (for "syslog.conf" and "syslogd")and still do
not
	quite get the syntax of syslog.conf. I've also looked around on
mailing 
	lists and Google (yes, done my homework :-) and not found
anything. Can
	anyone please point me in the right direction? Perhaps a brief
	explanation of syslog.conf or a few links to articles? Anything
would be
	great as this has been frusturating me for weeks now. Thanks!
	
	-Trevor
	
	
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