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To: "Anders R. Sveen" <anderssv@stud.ntnu.no>
cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Logging 
In-reply-to: Message from "Anders R. Sveen" <anderssv@stud.ntnu.no> of Mon,
	20 Nov 2000 19:57:11 +0100.
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:25:44 +0000
From: "Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>

"Anders R. Sveen" wrote:
  >Hey,
  >
  >I've set my pg_options file to write log messages, but it only logs to
  >/var/log/messages instead of /var/log/postgresql wich remains empty. 
  >
  >Why is that and how can i change it? Maybe it's a sylog question, but
  >beeing new to it and all i can't really figure things out.

The docs say: Messages printed to syslog use the log facility LOG_LOCAL0.

You need to configure syslogd to send those messages to postgresql; edit
/etc/syslog.conf (see the man page for syslogd and syslog.conf) to
contain something like:

   local0.*   -/var/log/postgresql

You may want to change this to be more selective...

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