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I have a daemon running, milter-regex that is absolutely polluting my /var/log/debug file. After some digging around I thought by adding the "daemon.err;daemon.notice /var/log/milter-regex" that that would stop the milter-regex stuff from going into /var/log/debug. But that didn't work. What am I missing?

My /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf file:

# # Some "catch-all" log files. # *.=debug;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ news.none;mail.none -/var/log/debug *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none -/var/log/messages daemon.err;daemon.notice /var/log/milter-regex # # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably # busy site.. # daemon.*;mail.*;\ news.err;\ *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole
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Just for extra safety, add daemon.none to avoid daemon messages going to debug

*.=debug;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ news.none;mail.none;\ daemon.none -/var/log/debug

That'll also stop any other daemon messages getting to your debug log though.

Also I don't think you want to send all daemon.err and daemon.notice to a milter-regex explicit file.

If I were you I would try to look at milter-regex to either send messsages through mail.* (it's related to mail after all) or just to write itself to a log file

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    Alternatively, configure milter-regex not to send debug level log messages... Commented Feb 2, 2011 at 18:55
  • voretaq7 - do you know how to configure it not to send debug messages? I've been through the manual @ linux.die.net/man/8/milter-regex, but I can't see it. Commented Feb 4, 2011 at 2:31
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In the file that starts the milter-regex daemon you can set the type of logging with the parameter -l n, n being the level: 5 for Notice, 6 for Informational, or 7 for Debug.

In my case (Debian Linux), this is done in /etc/init.d/milter-regex.

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