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Add a note pointing out that you can't log to syslog without tweaking
the syslog configuration file (at least not on most known Unixen). I dunno why we hadn't had that info in the docs all along ...
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.150 2007/10/09 18:14:01 neilc Exp $ -->
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<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/config.sgml,v 1.151 2007/10/20 04:00:38 tgl Exp $ -->
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<chapter Id="runtime-config">
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<title>Server Configuration</title>
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<varname>logging_collector</varname> must be enabled to generate
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CSV-format log output.
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</para>
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<note>
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<para>
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On most Unix systems, you will need to alter the configuration of
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your system's <application>syslog</application> daemon in order
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to make use of the <systemitem>syslog</systemitem> option for
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<varname>log_destination</>. <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
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can log to <application>syslog</application> facilities
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<literal>LOCAL0</> through <literal>LOCAL7</> (see <xref
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linkend="guc-syslog-facility">), but the default
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<application>syslog</application> configuration on most platforms
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will discard all such messages. You will need to add something like
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<programlisting>
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local0.* /var/log/postgresql
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</programlisting>
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to the <application>syslog</application> daemon's configuration file
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to make it work.
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</para>
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</note>
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</varlistentry>
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