01-02-2013
You wouldn't be able to specify these particular files (the messages are routed to the destination files based on the facility/priority pair the program assigned to the message). However the files and the facility/priorities that write to them are pretty consistent across most distributions' default configurations, so you can usually be 90% sure of what file your log will end up in. For example, almost all distributions will route a "mail" facility message of any priority to the /var/log/maillog file, anything logged as "authpriv" to /var/log/secure etc. Linux distros don't have to do it that way, but they have adopted similar configurations just to stick with a common convention where possible.
Basically: by design, you won't be able to be sure that some mail-related message you generate will always end up in /var/log/maillog but if you log to the "mail" facility you can just know that /var/log/maillog is where it's going to end up on almost every major Linux distribution.
Last edited by thmnetwork; 01-02-2013 at 07:19 PM..
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