From 79ef033b0b877429256ea8b968c1e1e4ad906c3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 22:00:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] rsyslog: Clean up rsyslog configuration.

This removes some commented out lines, and reorganizes the existing
logfiles to be more consistent.
---
 etc/rsyslog.conf | 80 +++++++++++++-----------------------------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/rsyslog.conf b/etc/rsyslog.conf
index d88cb68..3d61e26 100644
--- a/etc/rsyslog.conf
+++ b/etc/rsyslog.conf
@@ -10,15 +10,7 @@
 
 $ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging
 $ModLoad imklog   # provides kernel logging support (previously done by rklogd) 
-#$ModLoad immark  # provides --MARK-- message capability
-
-# provides UDP syslog reception
-#$ModLoad imudp
-#$UDPServerRun 514
-
-# provides TCP syslog reception
-#$ModLoad imtcp
-#$InputTCPServerRun 514
+#$ModLoad immark   # provides --MARK-- message capability
 
 
 ###########################
@@ -50,66 +42,36 @@ $IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
 ###############
 
 #
-# First some standard log files.  Log by facility.
-#
+# Log each facility into its own log
 auth,authpriv.*			/var/log/auth.log
-*.*;auth,authpriv.none		-/var/log/syslog
-#cron.*				/var/log/cron.log
+cron.*				-/var/log/user.log
 daemon.*			-/var/log/daemon.log
 kern.*				-/var/log/kern.log
 lpr.*				-/var/log/lpr.log
 mail.*				-/var/log/mail.log
 user.*				-/var/log/user.log
+local0,local1,local2,\
+	local3,local4,local5,\
+	local6,local7.*		-/var/log/local.log
+
+# Omitted facilities: syslog, news, uucp, ftp
+
+# All logs end up in syslog as weel as the corresponding facility log above
+# (except for auth, mail which only end up in the facility log for privacy
+# reasons and debug which only ends up in the debug log below to prevent
+# flooding).
+*.*;\
+	*.!=debug;\
+	auth,authpriv.none;\
+	mail.none		-/var/log/syslog
 
-#
-# Logging for the mail system.  Split it up so that
-# it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
-#
-mail.info			-/var/log/mail.info
-mail.warn			-/var/log/mail.warn
-mail.err			/var/log/mail.err
-
-#
-# Logging for INN news system.
-#
-news.crit			/var/log/news/news.crit
-news.err			/var/log/news/news.err
-news.notice			-/var/log/news/news.notice
-
-#
-# Some "catch-all" log files.
-#
+# Debug entries end up in debug.log as well as the corresponding facility log
+# above (except for auth and mail, which only end up in the facility logs for
+# privacy reasons).
 *.=debug;\
 	auth,authpriv.none;\
-	news.none;mail.none	-/var/log/debug
-*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
-	auth,authpriv.none;\
-	cron,daemon.none;\
-	mail,news.none		-/var/log/messages
-
+	news.none;mail.none	-/var/log/debug.log
 #
 # Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
 #
 *.emerg				*
-
-#
-# I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
-# console I usually leave idle.
-#
-#daemon,mail.*;\
-#	news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
-#	*.=debug;*.=info;\
-#	*.=notice;*.=warn	/dev/tty8
-
-# The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility.  To use it,
-# you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
-# 
-#    $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
-#
-# NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably
-#      busy site..
-#
-daemon.*;mail.*;\
-	news.err;\
-	*.=debug;*.=info;\
-	*.=notice;*.=warn	|/dev/xconsole
-- 
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