From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 19:15:51 2001 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 19:15:48 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F5F537B400 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 19:15:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 14E0sU-000Mk9-00 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 03:15:46 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f043Fjj47431 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 03:15:45 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 03:15:45 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: frustration with debug messages Message-ID: <20010104031545.A47353@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh" X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello all, I am new to -hackers, and I have run into a very frustrating problem. I am using standard printf statements for status info while debugging the parallel port zip driver in PS2 mode. For a reason I have yet to discover, my messages are no longer appearing consistently in my dmesg output. As I move through the debug process, I will enable and disable blocks of debug output, but when I run dmesg, what I see is not the same as what I saw while the machine was rebooting. These same messages usually end up in /var/log/messages, but I can't figure out the pattern. I saw that messages.4 was not gzipped like the others. Could i have overflowed syslogd and messed things up? I would be happy to post info besides my syslog.conf, but I didn't want to clog the list. My work has come to a standstill, since I cannot access the debug output. Please help! Hopefully it is only a small issue that I can learn from and fix promptly. jm -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jonathon McKitrick -- jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org They laugh because I'm different. I laugh because they're all the same. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="syslog.conf" # $FreeBSD: src/etc/syslog.conf,v 1.9.2.1 1999/08/29 14:19:02 peter 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 /var/log/messages *.emerg * # 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 !ipfw *.* /var/log/ipfw.log --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message