help logging to local3

By default all other log facilities are setup to log a level of info and above. debug which is the default level when not speified in the log command, is not turned on for those facilities.

 

 

You have a few options.

 

 

1) Manually specify a level in your log statement

 

 

log [.]

 

facility: local0, local1, local2, etc

 

level: debug (default), info, emerg

 

 

 

Your code more than likely looks like this:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  log local3. "I'm logging something!"
}

 

 

You'll notice that the level is omitted and thus defaulting to debug. You can specify info which should make it to all the other pre-defined facilities.

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  log local3.info "I'm logging something!"
}

 

 

2) Modify the syslog-ng configuration. I can't give you advice here because that falls outside of the support realm of devcentral. Feel free to look at that configuration file on your system and copy what's done for the local0 filter. Just make sure you backup the original configuration in case you get into problems.

 

 

-Joe