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Hi,

I think never answered this yet...

On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 09:30:30PM -0400, Ronald wrote:
> In our /var/log/messages everythings that happenning on the dial-in connections is
> written, (sites, Authentification, etc.. etc...) this file is getting very big in a matters of minutes.

Hmmm. Could you show some samples *what*'s written there?  My
/var/log/messages is growing only slowly (maybe 100 lines/day or so)...

> Looks like the debug is set to the max, we just can't find where to put it to a lower value. 
> 
> I would like to know how can we set what's will be logged, I know this is a newbie question,
> we have looked a lot on the net to find infos about that without luck.
> 
> We have tried to modified syslog.conf, but it didn't resolve the problem.

After modifying syslog.conf, you have to do a "killall -HUP syslogd".

gert
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