SYSLOG problem. Can't seperate sendmail from cyrus.

[Simon Matter]

> Am Do, den 13.04.2006 schrieb Mark London um 1:40:
>
>> I have cyrus installed via redhat 4 rpms.  I thought I could separate
>> all cyrus messages from sendmail, by doing the following in syslog.conf:
>>
>> *.info;mail.none;news.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;local6.*
>> /var/log/messages
>>
>> mail.*;local6.none
>> -/var/log/maillog
>
> Cyrus-IMAPd shipping with RHEL4 is compiled with facility MAIL. You
> would have to rebuild the src.rpm to get a different facility for
> logging, i.e. the default of local6. I too prefer to get Cyrus-IMAPd
> logs into a separate log file.

>From a packagers/distributors point of view cyrus-imapd logs really belong
to MAIL facility, per default. However, I would like to see this as a
runtime configurtion option because the question pops up again and again.
Did anyone already look into it and create a patch?

Simon