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Re: [Cooker] Re: Network cannot resolve dns addresses again after last nights update

by Colin Guthrie-8 :: Rate this Message:

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Steve Morris wrote:
> I wasn't aware that these messages were logged to this file, which also
> raises another question I have been pondering. Why do we have so many
> log files, why do we not use just syslog?

Erm, this *is* going through syslog....

The syslog configuration (/etc/syslog.conf) determins how the various
messages are split out into separate files for convenience. I sure as
hell wouldn't want all my mail+firewall messages going into one big
file... Separate is good.

Col


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