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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Transfer the logs being thrown into /var/log/messages into another file example /var/log/volumelog Post 302997192 by Peasant on Tuesday 9th of May 2017 11:37:49 AM
Old 05-09-2017
If you are referring for your application to log into default (messages) or custom log you can use logger command.

Read man logger on your operating system and inspect the files rbatte mentioned to determine current configuration.

Regards
Peasant.
 

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socklog-conf(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   socklog-conf(8)

NAME
socklog-conf - sets up a socklog(8) service. SYNOPSIS
socklog-conf unix|inet|klog|ucspi-tcp acct logacct socklog-conf notify acct grp DESCRIPTION
socklog-conf creates /etc/sv if necessary and a subdirectory that runs the unix, inet, ucspi-tcp or notify service (see below for each ser- vice). Except for the notify service, socklog-conf also creates a log directory with subdirectories. acct, logacct and grp must not contain any special characters. UNIX SERVICE
socklog-conf unix acct logacct Running socklog-conf with the 1st argument unix, socklog-conf creates the service directory /etc/sv/socklog-unix and the log directory /var/log/socklog. socklog-conf arranges for socklog(8) to run under the uid and gid of acct and to listen for syslog messages on /dev/log. It also creates automatically rotated log directories in /var/log/socklog. The logs are owned by logacct. The corresponding svlogd(8) process runs under the uid and gid of logacct. You can add the service to system-wide service supervision through the update-service(8) program: update-service --add /etc/sv/socklog-unix INET SERVICE
socklog-conf inet acct logacct Running socklog-conf with the 1st argument inet, socklog-conf creates the service directory /etc/sv/socklog-inet and the log directory /var/log/socklog-inet. socklog-conf arranges for socklog(8) to run under the uid and gid of acct and to listen for syslog messages on the UDP socket 0.0.0.0:514. It also creates automatically rotated log directories in /var/log/socklog-inet. The logs are owned by logacct. The corresponding svlogd(8) process runs under the uid and gid of logacct. You can add the service to system-wide service supervision through the update-service(8) program: update-service --add /etc/sv/socklog-inet KLOG SERVICE
socklog-conf klog acct logacct Running socklog-conf with the 1st argument klog, socklog-conf creates the service directory /etc/sv/socklog-klog and the log directory /var/log/socklog-klog. socklog-conf arranges for socklog(8) to run under the uid and gid of acct and to read kernel messages from /proc/kmsg on Linux, or /dev/socklog-klog on BSD. It also creates automatically rotated log directories in /var/log/socklog-klog. The logs are owned by logacct. The corresponding svlogd(8) process runs under the uid and gid of logacct. You can add the service to system-wide service supervision through the update-service(8) program: update-service --add /etc/sv/socklog-klog UCSPI-TCP SERVICE socklog-conf ucspi-tcp acct logacct Running socklog-conf with the 1st argument ucspi-tcp, socklog-conf creates the service directory /etc/sv/socklog-ucspi-tcp and the log directory /var/log/socklog-ucspi-tcp. socklog-conf arranges for tcpsvd(1) to run socklog(8) under the uid and gid of acct and to listen on the TCP socket 0.0.0.0:10116. It also creates automatically rotated log directories in /var/log/socklog-ucspi-tcp. The logs are owned by logacct. The corresponding svlogd(8) process runs under the uid and gid of logacct. You can add the service to system-wide service supervision through the update-service(8) program: update-service --add /etc/sv/socklog-ucspi-tcp NOTIFY SERVICE
socklog-conf notify acct grp Running socklog-conf with the 1st argument notify, socklog-conf creates the service directory /etc/sv/socklog-notify. socklog-conf arranges for uncat(1) to run under the uid and gid of acct and to listen on the named pipe /var/log/socklog/.notify. The named pipe will have mode 0620, the uid of acct and the gid of grp. All uids running a log service that is configured to push log events to the socklog-notify service must be member of the group grp. You can add the service to system-wide service supervision through the update-service(8) program: update-service --add /etc/sv/socklog-notify SEE ALSO
socklog(8), svlogd(8), nc(1), tryto(1), uncat(1), socklog-check(8), tcpsvd(8), sv(8), runsv(8), runsvdir(8) http://smarden.org/socklog/ http://smarden.org/runit/ AUTHOR
Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> socklog-conf(8)
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