Using syslog

[Michael R Sweet]

angelb at bugarin.us wrote:
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> I'm setting a test CUPS server to use syslog for all CUPS-related
>>> messages. I've not been able to get it to work.
>>>
>>> In my CUPS server, I specified syslog to log all messages.
>>>
>>> localhost# grep syslog cupsd.conf
>>> AccessLog syslog
>>> ErrorLog syslog
>>> PageLog syslog
>>>
>>> Since I did not specify a facility, I'm guessing it defaults
>>> to local7 id.
> 
>> Nope, we use the LPR facility.
>>
> 
> Okay, I seem to have done it correctly the first time. Except that
> cups.log file I was expecting to be used was not being populated. It
> turned out that in my configuration directory, /etc/opt/TWWfsw/cups1123, a syslog file was automatically
> created and all CUPS-related messages was entered.
> 
> It seems that adding an entry for CUPS into the syslog.conf file, in
> this case "lpr.debug /var/log/cups.log" is ignored.
> 
> Is that how error logging in CUPS work with syslog, it creates its
> log file in the configuration directory? If I want to route the
> messages to a log server(lpr.debug   @loghost), which I intend to do
> for our production, how am I supposed to configure it if the
> syslog.conf file is being ignored?

Did you restart syslogd after making the changes?

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