Re: System Log - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the quick reply. I don't think the messages are configured to go
anywhere. Have you got a simple example I could copy? Or is there a simple
guide somewhere?

The current files is:

# $FreeBSD: src/etc/syslog.conf,v 1.13.2.3 2002/04/15 00:44:13 dougb Exp $
#
#       Spaces ARE valid field separators in this file. However,
#       other *nix-like systems still insist on using tabs as field
#       separators. If you are sharing this file between systems, you
#       may want to use only tabs as field separators here.
#       Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage.
*.notice;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err            /var/log/messages
security.*                                      /var/log/security
auth.info;authpriv.info                         /var/log/auth.log
mail.info                                       /var/log/maillog
lpr.info                                        /var/log/lpd-errs
cron.*                                          /var/log/cron
*.emerg                                         *
# uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/all.log
# touch /var/log/all.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work
#*.*                                            /var/log/all.log
# uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost
#*.*                                            @loghost
# uncomment these if you're running inn
# news.crit                                     /var/log/news/news.crit
# news.err                                      /var/log/news/news.err
# news.notice                                   /var/log/news/news.notice

Do I add

postgres.*                            /var/log/postmaster.log

or perhaps

LOCAL0.*                            /var/log/postmaster.log

Regards

Duncan
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: 09 March 2007 16:24
To: Duncan Garland
Cc: pgsql-novice@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [NOVICE] System Log


"Duncan Garland" <duncan.garland@ntlworld.com> writes:
> The relevant part of the configuration file (postgresql.conf) was:
> syslog = 2                      # range 0-2; 0=stdout; 1=both; 2=syslog
> syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
> syslog_ident = 'postgres'

> I then restarted the server. No difference. I'm assuming the log file is
> postmaster.log.

No, given those settings, the messages are going to go wherever your
system's syslog daemon is configured to write "local0" messages.
Possibly /var/log/messages, but this is something that varies wildly
across different platforms ... "man syslogd" should lead you to the
configuration file that determines it.

            regards, tom lane

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