Subject: Re: Getting dhclient to log somewhere else than default facility.
To: David S. <davids@idiom.com>
From: Wouter Schoot <wouter@schoot.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/09/2004 22:41:49
> 'dhclient's syslog facility is hard-wired in the source code to 
> "LOG_DAEMON".  To change it to something else is easy - a one-liner.
> Modifying the code so that you could specify it in 'dhclient.conf'
> would be more difficult.  You could modify 'syslog's configuration
> so that the 'daemon' facilities log somewhere other than 
> '/var/log/messages'.   That would reduce the noise in "messages",
> but maybe also remove some information you'd like to see there,
> since many programs use the 'daemon' facility.

So I'd better call local0 or local1 or something, instead of LOG_DAEMON ?
And yes, editting the source will of course help, but I still don't 
prefer that way really ;)

Wouter