From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 12 19:10:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from VL-MS-MR002.sc1.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFEB37B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from videotron.ca ([24.201.55.172]) by VL-MS-MR002.sc1.videotron.ca (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id G3Y0TX03.PM9; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 22:10:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3A0F5CFF.5C081FF@videotron.ca> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 03:16:15 +0000 From: Luc Morin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd messages References: <3A0F290E.A63C37F0@videotron.ca> <20001113034737.A17269@hades.hell.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 11:34:38PM +0000, Luc Morin wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have started seeing as lot of these messages at the console: > > > > Nov 11 23:00:01 southpark syslogd: '/' in "/dev//dev/pty" > > > > I'm not too sure when they started showing up. Has anyone else > > noticed them ? What do they mean ? > > I haven't seen this. But can we see your /etc/syslog.conf ? > > - giorgos As far as I know, this is a "stock" syslog.conf, but here it goes: # $FreeBSD: src/etc/syslog.conf,v 1.13 2000/02/08 21:57:28 rwatson Exp $ # # Spaces are NOT valid field separators in this file. # Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage. *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages security.* /var/log/security mail.info /var/log/maillog lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs cron.* /var/log/cron *.err root *.notice;news.err root *.alert root *.emerg * # uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/all.log #*.* /var/log/all.log # uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost #*.* @loghost # uncomment these if you're running inn # news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit # news.err /var/log/news/news.err # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice !startslip *.* /var/log/slip.log !ppp *.* /var/log/ppp.log Regards, Luc Morin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message