Logger to a file other that /var/log/system.log

[francisT]

I've looked in the documentation and failed to find an answer to this, if I'm blind please point me to where my google-fu failed. Likewise if its somewhere on these boards.

I'd like to log certain messages to a different file than the standard system.log. Specifically I want to occasionally put a line in /var/log/filter.log so that I can tell when I last looked at it. I tried the naive

logger -f /var/log/filter.log "message"

which would work on quite a few BSD & Linux systems but in pfsense 2.0 the -f parameter appears to be ignored and the message is written to system.log no matter what.

Any assistance much appreciated

Francis

[francisT]

OK someone figured this out for me. For others that may be interested the trick is to figure out which syslog facilities/priorities go to the right log file.

I want filter.log and local0.* goes there so

: logger -p local0.info "this is my test message"
: clog /var/log/filter.log | tail -1
Dec 12 05:13:09 pfSense root: this is my test message

[jimp]

(I was working up a reply, and you responded before I could hit submit… but there is still something I can add:

You can also control the tag, or get a message in from another command like so:

echo Hello World | logger -t mytag -p local0.info