[vdr] Re: vdr crashes

[Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>]

Lauri Pesonen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:46:15AM +0200, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> > I typically have a "tail -f /var/log/messages" running in a window
> > on my desktop, so I like to have everyting important logged there.
> >
> > Klaus
>
> Couldn't you direct all Local_X messages to /var/log/messages? Others
> could direct Local_X to something else, like /var/log/vdr etc.
>
> (I'm not sure whether this is possible :)

vdr uses LOG_USER. If you'd like to change this you just have to edit 
the openlog() call in vdr.c and modify your syslog.conf accordingly.

man openlog
man syslog.conf

Oliver