[OpenSIPS-Users] turn off syslog logging with OpenSIPS 3.2 ?

Ovidiu Sas osas at voipembedded.com
Mon Oct 17 16:39:26 UTC 2022


Yes, OpenSIPS will log to syslog unless you are asking to redirect all
logs to stderr.
Just send all the logs to syslog and then filter them based on severity.

The pattern is:
<facility><severity>    <file/to/log>
If you use severity none, then that particular facility will be disabled.

-ovidiu

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 12:21 PM Kingsley Tart <kingsley at dns99.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks. I presume from your answer that OpenSIPS will always talk to
> syslog regardless of what logging settings I configure within OpenSIPS.
> Did I read that right?
>
> If that's the case, I'm probably better off not telling OpenSIPS to log
> to a local file itself and split it out within syslog's config. I
> expect that would be more efficient than OpenSIPS writing the log to
> two places and then have one of those places (syslog) ignore what it's
> being given.
>
> There's stuff I need to learn about how to configure syslog but at
> least your answer has given me some pointers, thanks.
>
> Cheers,
> Kingsley.
>
> On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 12:08 -0400, Ovidiu Sas wrote:
> > Hello Kingsley,
> >
> > You need to disable logging from local0 into /var/log/syslog.
> > Check you (r)syslog.conf file (whatever that is on you OS) and add
> > "local0.none" for /var/log/syslog
> >
> > Example:
> > *.*;auth,authpriv,\
> > local0,local1.none      -/var/log/syslog
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > -ovidiu
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 8:19 AM Kingsley Tart <kingsley at dns99.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is there a way in OpenSIPS 3.2 of logging to /var/log/opensips.log
> > > but
> > > not copy these logs into syslog?
> > >
> > > I have these log settings:
> > >
> > > log_level=3
> > > xlog_level=1
> > > log_stderror=no
> > > log_facility=LOG_LOCAL0
> > >
> > > What I'm seeing is opensips logs in /var/log/opensips.log but every
> > > entry in there is duplicated in /var/log/syslog; I don't want them
> > > in
> > > there.
> > >
> > > Is there a way in OpenSIPS to configure this, or should I instead
> > > tell
> > > OpenSIPS to log using LOG_DAEMON and configure syslog to split
> > > opensips
> > > logs out itself?
> > >
> > > I've tried googling and looking at the OpenSIPS docs but can't find
> > > the
> > > answer.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Kingsley.
> > >
> > >
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