Create an own log file

[aleix]

Hi everybody,

I need to do an easy task but I don't know how to do it.

I have a shell script called "first" executed as a daemon in runlevel 3, where I have put a soft link (/etc/rc3.d/S99first) to make it start when console changes to runlevel 3.

I want to create a new logfile called /tmp/logfirst where output of changing runlevel 3 is written.

How can I do that?

Firstly I need to know where messages of changing runlevels are stored...and then I suposo I will have to redirect it to /tmp/logfirst...

any ideas??

Thanks!

Aleix

[hazel]

I think changes in run level are logged in /var/log/syslog. But why not make your script use logger to send a message to a log file of your choosing?

[aleix]

Hi!

these would be one way, but the problem is that the script is a C binary, and I don't have the source code to change it.

So, I need to redirect the messages produced with this program to a new log file, using system files.

Aleix

[hazel]

Er??! You said before that it was a shell script. Well, if it's a binary and you can't recompile it, you will need to find out what facility it logs under (probably daemon) and edit /etc/syslog.conf to send those messages elsewhere.