On Thu, 24 May 2007, Michael van Elst wrote:

> This just drops a valuable feature: logging events to
> multiple destinations independently.

That could be just an option. (Coding seems very simple. See my other 
email.)

> The thing that you cannot do with syslog now is to
> log only low priority events but skip high priority
> events. I.e.:
> 
> user.info	only-info.log
> 
> will result in only-info.log to get all events with
> priority info or higher.

Use the "=" (equal) comparison flag. See the syslog.conf(5) man page.

user.=info	only-info.log

Or use the syslogd -U switch. See the syslogd(8) man page.


  Jeremy C. Reed