> Hello all,
> I just finished my very first postgresql installation (Version 7). I
> already like it much better than oracle 8, which took me the better part
> of a day to install. Anyway, I have a red-hat based VA Linux box, so I
> followed the red-hat startup instructions, putting a file in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d and a link in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d ... and I reconfigured
> syslog so that local5.* goes to /var/log/postgres. Everything works
> fine, except that postmaster messages go to /var/log/messages as well
> ... whats up with that? What do I have to change so that messages
> doesn't get the database errors ... any help would be appreciated!
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -ernie
Do you have something like this in syslog.conf?
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none /var/log/messages
Since PostgreSQL uses LOG_LOCAL0 log facility, changing to:
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;local0.none /var/log/messages
will do the trick. Hope this helps,
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Tatstuo Ishii