Re: flexfax: Please help redirecting log messages

[Damian A Ivereigh <damian@cisco.com>]

I don't know the answer to this, but have you checked to see if the
logging is going elsewhere? e.g. into daemon rather than local5. It may
be a bug that Hylafax isn't taking note of this parameter in all the
places it should be.

Damian

Bernie wrote:
> 
> I can't seem to redirect messages to a
> log file other than /var/log/messages.
> I've set the LogFacility to local5 in
> the following files:
> 
> /var/spool/fax/config/defaults/config
> /var/spool/fax/etc/config
> /var/spool/fax/etc/config.cua1
> 
> I then tried (at different times) the
> following two lines in my /etc/syslog.conf
> (separated by tabs):
> 
> local5.*         /apps/hylafax/hylafax.log
> local5.debug         /apps/hylafax/hylafax.log
> 
> When I restart my computer, only 3 messages
> logged to /apps/hylafax/hylafax.log are:
> 
> Dec 10 09:14:43 localhost FaxQueuer[277]: HylaFAX (tm) Version 4.0pl2
> Dec 10 09:14:43 localhost FaxQueuer[277]: Copyright (c) 1990-1996 Sam
> Leffler
> Dec 10 09:14:43 localhost FaxQueuer[277]: Copyright (c) 1991-1996
> Silicon Graphics, Inc.
> 
> I've installed the following release of HylaFAX
> under RedHat Linux 5.2:
> 
> hylafax-4.0pl2-3rh5.i386.rpm
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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