Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > this seems a bit kludgy, tho. can anyone think of a better way to do it? > I had to chmod /var/log/messages to be group-readable to make this work. Find out who sends the line speed message (I assume it is pppd) and then find out what that programs syslog facility (kern, mail, user,...) and severity (info, alert, crit,...) are for this message. In /etc/syslog.conf make a new entry using the facility and severity found and point it at a new file (/var/log/pppmessages or something). chmod that file and pull line speed entries from it. This still is less than ideal, security-wise, but you could use logrotated (or cron) to delete this file on a regular basis. I don't know if this is worth all that work, but it might be a fun exersize. :-) Troy -- Troy Johnson mailto:john1536 at tc.umn.edu http://umn.edu/~john1536/ Sponges grow in the ocean... that *kills* me. I wonder how much deeper they'd be if that didn't happen. -- Stephen Wright --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org