disable logging

[Woerns Urstmann]

Zitat von Patrick Welche <prlw1 at newn.cam.ac.uk>:

> On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:27:27PM +0100, Woerns Urstmann wrote:
> > how can i disable this excessive logging to my syslog? i really can't find
> > any "debug" switch in my setup.
> 
> from doc/install-configure.html part 3:
> 
>        If you do not copy the "syslog/syslog.conf" file to the "/etc"
>        directory, be sure to add support for "local6.debug". The file
>        should include a line like:
>    				local6.debug  /var/log/imapd.log
>        You probably also want to log SASL messages with a line like:
>    				auth.debug /var/log/auth.log
>        After installation and testing, you probably want to change the
>        ".debug" component to something a little less verbose. Create the
>        log files:
>    				touch /var/log/imapd.log /var/log/auth.log
> 
> 
> So you will want local6.info or somesuch..

thanks. but now i got it logging to /var/log/auth.log AND /var/log/messages - 
there is an entry in syslog.conf:

# save the rest in one file
*.*;mail.none;news.none         -/var/log/messages

the *.* is doing it, right? but if i remove it, am i loosing some important 
logging entries?

jens