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