Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:52:07 -0800 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.ports@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com> Subject: Re: cups or HPLIP - overeager notification of syslog messages Message-ID: <200907272252.07459.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.ports@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <ef8c8a880907251951n310ec81er8da544de5ca2cbc3@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef8c8a880907251951n310ec81er8da544de5ca2cbc3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Saturday 25 July 2009 18:51:25 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Message from syslogd@kg-v2 at Jul 26 03:53:53 ...
> kg-v2 cupsd: Unable to read configuration file
> '/usr/local/etc/cups/cupsd.conf' - exiting!
> I haven't seen this problem before, and I have used cups and hplip since
> hplip was fiurst ported to FreeBSd.
> I do not know if the fault lies with HPLIP ( I suspect the systray app, b=
ut
> I have no evidence)
None of the above. Chances are cups logs this with emerg level and *.emerg =
is=20
logged to '*' in a stock syslog.conf. From syslog.conf(5):
The action field of each line specifies the action to be taken when the
selector field selects a message. There are five forms:
....
=B7 An asterisk. Selected messages are written to all logged-in us=
ers.
=2D-=20
Mel
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