On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:12 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 04:52:01PM +0000, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 03:20:38AM +0000, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:00 AM, Tom H <tomh0665(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Suvayu Ali
<fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. I would like to filter logs that typically go into
/var/log/secure
>>>>> (or other similar files); how do I do that?
>>>>
>>>> SYSLOG_FACILITY=authpriv
>>>
>>> Sorry. Just thought that I'd try it and it turms out that it takes the
>>> facility as a number not as a name, so "SYSLOG_FACILITY=10".
>>
>> Thank you! This will be very helpful. Where is this documented? I
>> could not find this information in journalctl(1) or
>> systemd.jounal-fields(7); did I miss some other docs?
>
> That SYSLOG_FACILITY has to be a number is from systemd.jounal-fields(7).
No, I mean which number corresponds to what facility. I don't even know
where to find a comprehensive list of all the facilities.
Okay I think while writing the email I found the list of facilities in
logger(1); but I still do not know where I can find the mapping between
these facilities with the numbers accepted by SYSLOG_FACILITY.
Sorry, misunderstood you...
Via google:
http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Rsyslog