Logs :(
Dana Kaempen
decay at flash.net
Fri Jun 7 14:49:50 EDT 2002
Nasir wrote:
> Can anybody send me syslog.conf and sudoers file who keeps log via syslog
> I still cant keep any log messages via sudo.
Here's what we use -
/etc/sudoers:
Defaults logfile=/var/adm/sudo.log
This works fine for us. The logfile can be syslog, if you want it to be, e.g.:
Defaults logfile=/var/adm/syslog
However, we like to explicitly keep sudo entries separate from regular syslog entries.
Another benefit of specifying log location in /etc/sudoers is that if you ever upgrade (or replace) your system, you don't have to remember to add back the line if syslog.conf is overwritten. We keep a virgin distribution of the latest & greatest locally compiled version of sudo, including our default /etc/sudoers, so we just lay that down on a (new or upgraded) system & we're ready to go.
Dana
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