gentoo-overlay/app-admin/syslog-ng/files/3.7/syslog-ng.conf.gentoo

@version: 3.7
# $Id$
#
# Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux

# https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426814
@include "scl.conf"

options { 
	threaded(yes);
	chain_hostnames(no); 

	# The default action of syslog-ng is to log a STATS line
	# to the file every 10 minutes.  That's pretty ugly after a while.
	# Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of
	# how many messages syslog-ng missed (0).
	stats_freq(43200); 
	# The default action of syslog-ng is to log a MARK line
	# to the file every 20 minutes.  That's seems high for most
	# people so turn it down to once an hour.  Set it to zero
	# if you don't want the functionality at all.
	mark_freq(3600); 
};

source src { system(); internal(); };

destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };

# By default messages are logged to tty12...
destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
# ...if you intend to use /dev/console for programs like xconsole
# you can comment out the destination line above that references /dev/tty12
# and uncomment the line below.
#destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); };

log { source(src); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); destination(console_all); };