Log files

Log files

[Steven Mugassa]

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> Hello everyone,  
> 
Although my question seems not to belong to this list, but i'll appreciate
any help from you guys.

> I have a file that i want to trace all changes that are happening on that
> file. i.e. 
> *	date/time
> *	who has done the changes(username) and from which terminal (IP
> address)
> *	What are the changes
> 
> Now, what should i do to "create" the log messages? I tried to define in
> the syslog.conf file the filename(with its path) to be traced for changes,
> and define where to log the messages (i created a file in the /var/log
> directory); but i couldn't find any log message (while i've done the
> changes in the file to be traced) .
> 
> Thanks,
> Steven

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Log Files

[Patrick Nelson]

Is there any way to send to a specific log file?

Re: Log Files

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:48:00AM -0700, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> Is there any way to send to a specific log file?

Netfilter logs come as normal kernel messages, so you can't select by
facility.priority. I'd recommend using something like syslog-ng which
allows you to filter per regexp, or to use some post-processing
facility.

Greetings
Marc

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