Received: from www.wgcr.org (www.wgcr.org [206.74.232.194]) by mail.postgresql.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAKK2Zs37992 for ; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:02:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lamar.owen@wgcr.org) Received: from wgcr.org ([10.1.2.1]) by www.wgcr.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/WGCR) with ESMTP id OAA18129; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:57:55 -0500 Message-ID: <3A198235.AE3DF04E@wgcr.org> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:57:41 -0500 From: Lamar Owen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Anders R. Sveen" CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Logging References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive-Number: 200011/131 X-Sequence-Number: 140 "Anders R. Sveen" wrote: > 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. You need to edit /etc/syslog.conf to direct the output of PostgreSQL to the file you wish to hold the log. The facility used by default in 7.0.3 is local0, so a line: local0.* /var/log/postgresql will do what you expect. -- Lamar Owen WGCR Internet Radio 1 Peter 4:11