Disable logging to /var/log/messages

[Khurram]

Great piece of information I have been meaning to do this for sometime and luckily found it through google. I would like to use it on Ubuntu 9.10 running syslog-ng 2.x. Using the following lines:

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filter f_zm { match("^zm.*"); };
destination zm { file("/var/log/zoneminder.log"); };
log { source(s_all); filter(f_zm); destination(zm); };

generates the zoneminder.log file.

But using the following line

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filter f_messages {
        level(info,notice,warn)
        and not facility(auth,authpriv,cron,daemon,mail,news) 
        and not filter(f_zm);
};

makes no difference to /var/log/messages as the zoneminder messages keep on logging to it also.

I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong.

Edit:

I figured it out. Actually it was a silly mistake on my part Zoneminder was logging its messages to /var/log/syslog and not /var/log/messages. I edited the wrong filter in syslog-ng.conf; it should have been f_syslog instead of f_messages.