syslog facility

[Cadriel]

Is there a way to force transmission logs to fire to a different log filename?

Or force transmission-daemon to log to a different facility?

I presume it logs to the daemon facility by default?

Reasoning being - im a stickler for clean logs, and would like to have transmission logging to a specific file instead.

Thanks!

[Cadriel]

For now I've modified my syslog.conf to fire all daemon log's to /var/logs/daemon. This seems to do the trick since it appears not much else is logging to this facility.

It'd still be nice to define the facility that transmission log's to though.

[chatainsim]

Could you please give me your syslog.conf ?

[Cadriel]

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# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.*                                                                 /dev/console

# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;daemon.none                    /var/log/messages

# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.*                                                              /var/log/secure

# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*                                                                  /var/log/maillog

# Log cron stuff
cron.*                                                                  /var/log/cron

# Log daemon stuff (transmission)
daemon.*                                                                /var/log/daemon

# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg                                                                 *

# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
uucp,news.crit                                                          /var/log/spooler

# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*                                                                /var/log/boot.log

The 2 lines you really need to pay attention to are:

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*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;daemon.none                    /var/log/messages
daemon.*                                                                /var/log/daemon

[Longinus00]

transmission-daemon has the ability to specify an alternate logfile.

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  -e   --logfile              <filename>      Dump the log messages to this filename

[Cadriel]

From 1.90 it does.

That post was made prior to 1.90.

And btw, thanks dev's for implementing this.