FreeBSD Socks5 with-syslog-facility option

Hiya,

I've installed a test server for myself and have already successfully installed socks5 through the ports collection onto it. Anyway after looking at the /var/log/messages for awhile and seeing how full it was getting with my connecting everything through it I started looking at whether I could limit or stop the logging of it completely.

A look at the Makefile showed me with --with-syslog-facility option which seemed to be ideal so I copied the files to another directory and edited the Makefile manually to set allow me to set --with-syslog-facility to whatever I wished. 'NO' is not a valid response for it though and so I'm wondering if anyone here knows what I can set it to to limit/stop logging?
The extra configuration option is originally set to LOG_AUTH but is commented out.

did you man syslog-facility?

Hmm I get "No manual entry for syslog-facility" but I notice with a google that at least on Linux there is a syslog-facility. It doesn't appear to exist on FreeBSD though as just doing 'syslog-facility' at the prompt returns Command not found.
In the ports collection there are two ports with similar names:
syslog-ng and syslog-ng2 but I see they are syslogd replacements

Looking at syslog.conf, if I add 'socks5.* /dev/null' And then set that as my syslog-facility in the Makefile that should presumably redirect the log to nothing..
or


Thank you AnarchY SI, I feel I'm on the right track now

A final addition.
I used

which worked perfectly so changed it to log /var/log/socks5 instead since I figure it could be handy to have.
Thanks for your help AnarchY SI

any time ^_^
lol no idea what i did, but you're very welcome :]

hehe well a further look reveals it didn't actually work out how I thought it had, it would still log to /var/log/message as well as the /var/log/socks5. I tried modifying it to

but that didn't work out either.

So deinstalled socks5 and going to edit the Makefile with a custom syslog-facility and use that in the syslog.conf file instead.