Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 19:48:58 +0100 (MET) From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: scott@statsci.com Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd unknown priority name "" Message-ID: <199603221848.TAA00130@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <m0u0Bao-000r3yC@main.statsci.com>
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> > > Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> wrote: > > > Christoph P. Kukulies stands accused of saying: > > > > > > On a 2.1 system I see spuriously the console message > > > > > > syslogd unknown priority name "" > > > > > > Has anyone else seen this and what might be the cause of this? > > > > Something is attempting to log a message but specifying a null priority > > name. Are you running anything "nonstandard"? > > Or...could it be a message coming from syslogd running across a bad entry > in the syslog.conf file? /etc/syslog.conf: *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;kern.debug;lpr,auth.info;mail.crit /var/log/messages mail.info /var/log/maillog lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs cron.* /var/cron/log *.err root *.notice;auth.debug root *.alert root *.emerg * !ftpd *.* /var/log/ftpd ~ ~ ~ ~ tildes aren't actually there, just to show there is an empty line. Also I don't recall what the !ftpd line was for. ftpd is wu-ftpd which logs to /var/log/xferlog. > > Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) > 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 > scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 > Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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