Michael
Many thanks. Configuring the syslog.conf and using logger to check it was
working did the trick. Previously I had no local0 entries in the syslog.conf
which was my problem.
David
>From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
>To: David Klugmann <dklugmann@hotmail.com>
>CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Problem getting sql statement logging to work
>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:51:27 -0700
>
>On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:05:34PM +0000, David Klugmann wrote:
> >
> > I have the following entries in my postgresql.conf file yet it doesn't
>seem
> > to log anything.
>
>Did you restart the backend after modifying postgresql.conf?
>
> > syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
>
>Have you configured /etc/syslog.conf to send local0 messages anywhere?
>You might need to add an appropriate line to /etc/syslog.conf, touch
>the desired log file if it doesn't already exist, and send a HUP
>signal to syslogd.
>
>You can test your syslog configuration with the "logger" program.
>I think log_statement sends messages to the LOG_INFO syslog level,
>so run the following command from the shell prompt and see if the
>message gets logged:
>
>logger -p local0.info "test 1 to local0.info"
>
>Verify that your syslog configuration is working, make sure you've
>restarted the PostgreSQL backend so it knows about the configuration
>changes, and try again.
>
>--
>Michael Fuhr
>http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
