Re: Boot Messages
How do you view what branches are available? I did
cvs z3 -d:pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/cvsroot/inetutils co -r
release1_4_0 inetutils
and got version 1.3.9a
--- Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 07:16:44AM -0700, Kenneth Stailey wrote:
> > IIRC syslogd doesn't read from files, you use logger(1) to send files or
> stdout
> > to syslogd. Trouble is that I can't get logger(1) to generate any
> messages.
>
> The inetutils syslogd does read from the kernel log device by default.
> That is, if it can find it. As we don't specify the klog path in
> syslog.h, you probably need to make sure you have /dev/klog before you
> configure inetutils. Then syslogd --help should show you the correct
> path in the --no-klog option (which you should not use of course :)
> If you don't see such an option at all, detection of PATH_KLOG failed.
>
> > from a startup script. I'll see about getting any updates from
> alpha.gnu.org.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no recent snapshot, please take the version from
> CVS (either the head or the 1.4 branch). It's still time to fix any
> specific small problem with it for the 1.4 release (eh, I hope ;), so it
> would be cool if you could test it before that happens.
>
> There is no need to play with logger, nor do we need a klogd like you
> need for the sysklogd set of programs (they removed the support for
> reading from a kernel log device directly, if I remember correctly,
> while our code is closer to the original BSD code in this regard. In
> fact, I merged the BSD code and the main features in the sysklogd suite
> for inetutils).
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
>
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