"P.T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
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> stewart menday <stewart at webstorm.net.au> wrote:
>
>
> Please do not top post! I'll fix this one ...

Peter
As the question was so short I didn't think it mattered if I "Top
Posted"

>
> > "P.T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
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> > > stewart menday <stewart at webstorm.net.au> wrote:
> > > > How do I get pppd to send messages to a file other then
/var/log/messages ?
> [...]
> > I was aware that it is syslog that does the logging and that pppd
will
> > be logged to wherever the daemon facility is logged, but I want to log
it to
>
> So what's your problem?
>
> > its own file.
>
> So what's your problem?
>
> > True I can change where all the daemons are logged but I
> > don't want them all just pppd.
>
> So what's your problem?

I thought that was obvious

>
> Are you struggling manfully to ask if the log facility with which pppd
> is normally logged coincides with that of some other daemon, so that
> syslogd cannot separate them? Or if pppd can be configured to send
> directly to a file instead of to syslog?
>
It doesn't really matter, either will do, as long as the messages end up in
their own file

> Well, if that is the case, I suggest you take lessons in expressing
> yourself. And then read the man page for pppd to discover the answer to
> the question you should have put to yourself. I already told you how:
>
> man pppd /log
>
> It really isn't hard, you know!
>
> But then you're slow? Here's a whopping clue, just for you:
>
>
> nolog Do not send log messages to a file or file descrip
> tor. This option cancels the logfd and logfile options.
>
>
> Peter
>

Your time would have been better spent answering my question then in trying
to insult me. You must be very insecure if you need to insult people in
order to feel good.

Stew