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james dot ellis at gmail dot com
17 years ago
If anyone is wondering why their log messages are appearing in multiple log files, here is one answer applying to *nix systems:

If your syslog.conf looks like this (assuming you use LOG_LOCAL0 for web app logging) :

local0.info /var/log/web/info.log

This will collect *all* messages of LOG_INFO level and higher, i.e everything except debug messages

Try this instead to ensure that only messages of the named log level go into the relevant log file:

local0.=info /var/log/web/info.log

Additionally, you may like to add this to ensure your messages don't end up in generic log files like "messages" "all" "syslog" and "debug":

local0.none /var/log/messages
local0.none /var/log/debug
etc

saves disk space among other things - more at "man syslog.conf"

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