@version: 3.0 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/syslog-ng.conf.gentoo.3.0,v 1.1 2009/05/25 20:07:21 mr_bones_ Exp $ # # Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux options { chain_hostnames(no); # The default action of syslog-ng is to log a STATS line # to the file every 10 minutes. That's pretty ugly after a while. # Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of # how many messages syslog-ng missed (0). stats_freq(43200); }; source src { unix-stream("/dev/log" max-connections(256)); internal(); file("/proc/kmsg"); }; destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); }; # By default messages are logged to tty12... destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); }; # ...if you intend to use /dev/console for programs like xconsole # you can comment out the destination line above that references /dev/tty12 # and uncomment the line below. #destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); }; log { source(src); destination(messages); }; log { source(src); destination(console_all); };