snoopy rsyslog output file rule

Question

I'm just setting up snoopy logger on my personal machine to archive commands I've run.

I'm attempting to setup an rsyslog rule to move its messages from /var/log/auth.log to /var/log/snoopy.log

I've tried a few different rsyslog rules to move the output, but after resetting the rsyslog service it's still logging to auth.log

~$ cat /etc/rsyslog.d/snoopy.conf

#if $programname == 'snoopy' then /var/log/snoopy.log
#& ~
:programname, isequal, "snoopy" /var/log/snoopy.log

Could it be that the rule in /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf

auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log

Is overriding any rule I specify?

Answer 1

I renamed the file such that it was loaded earlier than the auth rule, and added & ~ to stop messages that match this rule being used in other rules.

~$ cat /etc/rsyslog.d/10-snoopy.conf

:programname, isequal, "snoopy" /var/log/snoopy.log
& ~