is there a man page for the /var/log/messages file?

kerneldove_: what are you hoping to find in said man page?

not sure

in /var/log/messages config, "*.notice;authpriv.none;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err" will that include /var/log/security content? (security.*)

kerneldove_: well, without any additional info from you, i can only suggest looking at the syslog(3) manpage

i'm guessing not but wanna confirm

and syslog.conf(5)

for the above, it would only include security.notice. nothing else from security.*

security.notice and more severe, right?

nope

*.notice is what would be matched

oh

what are you trying to do?

gimmie somethin' to work with here

:)

zi: wait, really?

was curious if tailing /var/log/messages was enough to stay abreast of security issues reported to the system

"kern.notice" would be kern.notice and anything higher, "*.notice" only matches notice exactly?

since /var/log/messages is kinda the main funnel of all important system logging

kerneldove_: might start out by enabling all.log in /etc/syslogd.conf and then figuring out what you like and go from there

ivy: nah, i misspoke. =notice would be required to match exact