[Openswan Users] Question about plutostderrlog

[Nick Howitt]

Ruben,

Nice idea but I'm stuck with syslogd. If you know a way of doing it with 
that, please let me know.

Thanks,

Nick

On 12/07/2011 08:03, Ruben Laban wrote:
> On Monday 11 July 2011 at 22:02 (CET), Nick Howitt wrote:
>> In order to de-clutter my /var/log/secure I tried to remove the pluto
>> messages from this file by setting plutostderrlog=/var/log/pluto. While
>> this works in that the log is redirected to /var/log/pluto there is no
>> date or timestamp in the log making it rather less useful. There was a
>> post to the list in 2004 but no useful answer. Is there any way of
>> getting a date and timestamp into this log?
> I'd say the more sane solution would be to reconfigure your syslog daemon to
> put openswan related messages in a seperate file. "Newer" syslog daemons like
> syslog-ng are quite flexible in doing stuff like this.
>
> Regards,
> Ruben Laban
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