From 8bcecb140314f535970a672767a4eb6c6314883d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: beck <>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:34:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Make the default syslog.conf not make the console and root
 logins unusable when problems occur. Provide commented out examples showing
 people how to direct output to /dev/console or as messages to root, for
 situations where such output might acutally be useful, rather than something
 that keeps you from fixing a problem due to the screen getting spewed at. ok
 jolan@ ian@ brad@ marco@ krw@ fgsch@

---
 src/etc/syslog.conf | 15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/etc/syslog.conf b/src/etc/syslog.conf
index dcf52252..0f924b0a 100644
--- a/src/etc/syslog.conf
+++ b/src/etc/syslog.conf
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
-#	$OpenBSD: syslog.conf,v 1.13 2003/06/26 18:24:25 jmc Exp $
+#	$OpenBSD: syslog.conf,v 1.14 2005/04/23 17:34:52 beck Exp $
 #
 
-*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;authpriv.none;mail.crit	/dev/console
 *.notice;auth,authpriv,cron,ftp,kern,lpr,mail,user.none	/var/log/messages
 kern.debug;user.info;syslog.info			/var/log/messages
 auth.info						/var/log/authlog
@@ -13,9 +12,15 @@ lpr.debug						/var/log/lpd-errs
 mail.info						/var/log/maillog
 #uucp.info						/var/log/uucp
 
-*.err							root
-*.notice;auth.debug					root
-*.alert							root
+# Uncomment this line to send "important" messages to the system
+# console, beware that this could create lots of output. 
+# *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;authpriv.none;mail.crit	/dev/console
+
+# Uncomment this to have all messages of notice level and higher
+# as well as all authentication messages sent to root.
+# *.notice;auth.debug					root
+
+# Everyone gets emergency messages.
 *.emerg							*
 
 # Uncomment to log to a central host named "loghost".   You need to run