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Syslogd logging severity levels

Is there any way to get syslog to include the severity level to the messages it writes to log files?

Thanks.

Hi,

Not that I know of. You could send every level to separate files (next to what you are already having). Add something like this to your /etc/syslog.conf (and restart syslogd afterwards):

Code:

# ------------------------------------------------------------------ #

# All levels in a seperate file

*.emerg                        -/var/log/log.0_emergency

*.alert;*.!emerg                -/var/log/log.1_alert

*.crit;*.!alert                -/var/log/log.2_critical

*.err;*.!crit                  -/var/log/log.3_error

*.warning;*.!err                -/var/log/log.4_warning

*.notice;*.!warning            -/var/log/log.5_notice

*.info;*.!notice                -/var/log/log.6_info

*.debug;*.!info                -/var/log/log.7_debug

Hope this helps.

Thanks, druuna. I thought of that but unfortunately some of the levels need to be in the same log file.

Hi,

You only need to combine some of the lines to do that. If you don't know how: syslog.conf's manpage has an example of that, or take a look here

Here's one to get you going:

*.=info;*.=notice /var/log/log.5-6-info-notice => All info and notice messages to one file.