Adding new logging to syslog

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

Hi,
  I've been working today on having ht:/dig searches logged. The htsearch
program can be logged by syslogd, but I'm having a problem getting syslog
to put these logs into a file other than /var/log/messages.

If they go into /var/log/messages, then a search is logged as (all in one
line):

Feb  5 12:43:01 demeter htsearch[2383]: demeter [htdig] (and) [steve]
[steve] (14/10) - 1 -- http://demeter/cgi-bin/htsearch

This one was a search for pages with "steve" in them.

If I edit /etc/syslog.conf so that the default file line looks like:

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;htsearch.none	/var/log/messages

Then the htsearch records nolonger show up in /var/log/messages, just like
I expected. But then if I add a record like:

htsearch.*						/var/log/htsearch

Nothing shows up in the new log file. I think I have the permissions
right. I was wondering if the PID which is connected to htsearch in the
successfull /var/log/messages logging is making the problem?

Erich

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