On 28 May 2002, Eric Jacoboni wrote:

> The log messages are sent to /var/log/newslog but are still in
> /var/log/messages (so i have two copies of each of them...). Even

Look at the syslog.conf and syslogd manual pages.

I assume your /etc/syslog.conf file has an entry for "*.info" that uses
/var/log/messages.

> send its logs in /var/news/log. So my actual problem is how to disable
> news logs in /var/log/messages...

You could have all news.* go to your news log file and then use news.none
for your messages file.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/