stewart menday <stewart at webstorm.net.au> wrote:

> "P.T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message news:5aunsb.6qd.ln@news.it.uc3m.es...
> > Please do not top post! I'll fix this one ...

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

Then why do it? It takes effort to write over the top of something,
constantly glancing down at the post to see what you are replying to,
and writing the answer to the question in a different place altogether.

In fact I don't know how you do it! How do people answer a post more
than 22 lines long by top posting? They can't see what they are talking
about when talking about it!

> > > "P.T. Breuer" <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message
> news:okhmsb.8pb.ln@news.it.uc3m.es...
> > > > 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?

> I thought that was obvious


It isn't at all obvious what your problem is, since you say that you
are aware of the situation. Being aware of it, what can your problem
possibly be?

It's like saying "I want a can of peas", and "I am aware the can of
peas is in the cupboard". Great! Fantastic! So what's your problem?
Go get 'em!


> > 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


No, either will not do. The answer can be negative to both or either.

Anyway, why didn't you ask that? You said that you knew syslog does the
logging, so you have to configure syslogd. What was your problem?


> > 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.


> 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.


I don't need to insult you (in order to feel good or not!). You insult
yourself! Did you have some problem doing the man pppd /log thang? For
the third time of asking ...

This is like talking to a tortoise.


Peter