18.11. Creating a Separate pppd Logfile

Problem

All of your pppd messages are getting dumped into /var/log/messages, and making a big mess, and you would rather have them going to a separate file.

Solution

Create your logfile:

	# touch /var/log/ppp

Then, add the logfile option to /etc/ppp/options:

	logfile /var/log/ppp

Delete any references to logfd, as the two options are mutually exclusive.

Discussion

There is no downside to having separate logfiles for your services; it makes it a lot easier to find out what is happening on your system.

Customizing the standard Linux syslog is bit more difficult than it needs to be; see Chapter 19 to learn how to build a robust, easily customizable logging server with syslog-ng.

See Also

  • man 8 pppd