From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 15:56:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF0237BDCB for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA83899; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:56:36 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma083886; Fri, 16 Jun 00 08:56:21 +1000 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id 4A2568FF.007E01E7 ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:56:20 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA From: Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au To: "David J. Kanter" Cc: Peter.Weber@ipaustralia.gov.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <4A2568FF.007E0078.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:56:26 +1000 Subject: Re: A question regarding Syslog Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To: "David J. Kanter" cc: Peter Weber, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for your input, however, I believe the question s more about how to correctly determine if logging is working inside an application. I get the impression that syslog is not a gauranteed logging service. Does anyone know of one? Thanks, Michael "David J. Kanter" on 15/06/2000 08:30:28 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Subject: Re: A question regarding Syslog On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 01:49:58PM +1000, Peter.Weber@ipaustralia.gov.au wrote: > When the syslog.conf file specifies that a message be written to a log file > and that log file does not exist it appears the message is simply lost. ---end quoted text--- When you edit syslog.conf and want to log to something like /var/log/foo, then simply type touch /var/log/foo and you're all ready to go. -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message