[X-Unix] Using SYSLOG

Kevin Stevens groups at pursued-with.net
Mon Jun 28 14:10:25 PDT 2004


On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Kevin Stevens wrote:

> c.  Change the /etc/rc startup script file to alter the syslogd launch
> settings.  !WARNING! -- This file controls system startup.  You can screw
> up your environment quite thoroughly by altering this file!  !WARNING!  I
> wish that Apple provided the equivalent of FreeBSD's rc.conf file to make
> these kind of changes, but they don't.  Use appropriate care and caution.

Note:  I was just looking at the new Tiger preview
(http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/unix.html), and it looks like Apple may
have improved some of this with Launchd.  Remains to be seen if they fix
the man page.  ;)

KeS



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