Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:23:08 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: des@des.no, phk@phk.freebsd.dk, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD Message-ID: <447C8D8C.1020808@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20060529.112935.570083129.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <1471.1148836757@critter.freebsd.dk> <20060528.113724.1655407378.imp@bsdimp.com> <86pshx85tu.fsf@xps.des.no> <20060529.112935.570083129.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: >In message: <86pshx85tu.fsf@xps.des.no> > des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes: >: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes: >: > There's no way to 'connect to syslogd and subscribe to messages' in >: > the current syslogd. >: >: tail -F /var/log/messages > > in -currnet you can listen on any UDP port and have syslog send you stuff. >That doesn't give you what I described. What that does is give you >the messages that syslogd writes to /var/log/messages. This is a >subset of the messages sent to syslogd, and doesn't have the severity >levels, facilities, etc associated with them. There's no way for one >to connect to syslogd and dynamically filter the records that are >displayed. While adding such a facility wouldn't be that hard, it >does not exist today. > >Warner > > >
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