Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 19:43:49 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: tarkhil@mgt.msk.ru (Alexander B. Povolotsky) Subject: Re: syslogd not writing marks Message-ID: <19971006194349.BG41546@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199710060550.JAA21771@asteroid.mgt.msk.ru>; from Alexander B. Povolotsky on Oct 6, 1997 09:50:57 %2B0400 References: <199710060550.JAA21771@asteroid.mgt.msk.ru>
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As Alexander B. Povolotsky wrote:
> I'm trying to set syslogd's marks, but so far it doesn't work. I've put
> syslog.info /var/log/alive
> into syslog.conf, restarted syslogd... and nothing appears.
Wrong facility:
The special facility ``mark'' receives a message at priority ``info'' ev-
ery 20 minutes (see syslogd(8)). This is not enabled by a facility field
containing an asterisk.
> [...skip...]
> X X X X X 8 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FORW: asteroid
> X X X X X 8 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /var/log/alive
> 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 X FORW: asteroid
> 7 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 X CONSOLE: /dev/console
> 7 5 2 5 5 5 6 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 X FILE: /var/log/messages
> X X 6 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /var/log/maillog
> X X X X X X 6 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /var/log/lpd-errs
> X X X X X X X X X 8 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /var/cron/log
> 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 X USERS: root,
> X X X X X X X 3 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X USERS: root,
> 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 X USERS: root,
> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X WALL:
> 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 X FILE: /var/log/slip. ...
> 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 X FILE: /var/log/ppp.l ...
^
| This is `mark'.
--
cheers, J"org
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