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> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, R. W. Rodolico wrote:
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> > Syslog is not logging to files. It simply displays the output on the
> > active terminal.
>
> What is it logging to the console?
The one I specifically remember was bind.
>
> What is it not logging to files?
Almost iterally nothing. The only files with non-zero length are dmesg,
faillog, installer.log, lastlog, messages, setuid.changes syslog, wtmp
and xferlog. Of those, messages and syslog only contain the -- MARK --
entries and notifications when syslog was being shut down and started
up. lastlog is binary, as is wtmp.
Ran syslogd with the -d flag set, captured the output to the attached
file. Only problem I noted was that it errored when trying to open a
file named /dev/log. I can find no entry /dev/log in /etc/syslogd.conf.
>
> What do you want logged?
Same as I have on my other server. Bind, mail, pop, ftp, errors,
warnings, etc...
>
> > Funny thing is, it does record when I start and stop syslogd, and it
> > still does its "marks".
>
> I guess you are talking about /var/log/messages. What are you
expecting in
> your logs?
Bind notifications, sendmail notifications, errors in configurations,
etc... I did not begin to notice this until I was trying to troubleshoot
a problem and found that my log files were, basically, empty.
>
> Can you manually use the logger program to log something to a
> different log file?
executed following command:
sudo logger -f /var/log/syslog This Is A Test
sudo logger -f /tmp/joe This is a Test
neither produced an entry
>
> > Attached is syslog.conf.
>
> With small text files, I believe it is easier to just include it in
the
> email instead of as an attachment (like Application/OCTET-STREAM).
>
> Anyways, it appears most of your sylogd config is like mine. (I just
have
> added a local2.* action and uncommented the last few lines.)
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
> http://www.reedmedia.net/
> http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
>
>
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