Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:49:19 -0800 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups Message-ID: <20081118214919.GM83287@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <20081118213410.GA81783@hoeg.nl> References: <e71790db0810271936r1ce4619an1d64c6aae62c3ec1@mail.gmail.com> <20081028081154.GQ6808@hoeg.nl> <20081118213410.GA81783@hoeg.nl>
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--W302I+VHGNbNYdEm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:34:10PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote: > ... > One solution would be to let xconsole just display /var/log/messages. Errr... it may be rather a pathological case, but you might want to check the content of /etc/syslog.conf on the local machine before getting too carried away with that approach. For example, on my "firewall" box at home (where I really do not want to log anything to local disk files, though I do have a serial console on it): janus(6.4-P)[1] grep -v '^#' /etc/syslog.conf=20 *.* @bunrab.catwhisker.org janus(6.4-P)[2]=20 And then consider the fate of bunrab -- with stuff getting logged to /var/log/messages from various machines.... > ... > I'll discuss this with others to decide if we should take such an > approach. I'm not trying to be obstructionist, here. If the above case is really "too pathological to consider" -- or if it's a case of me bringing that fate upon myself, I suppose -- that's actually something I can live with. It would be nice to be forwarned about it, though. :-} Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --W302I+VHGNbNYdEm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkjOF8ACgkQmprOCmdXAD12IgCfSYhgY+QBi8wGgnUb+2SP6SpM BkIAnjUtiTny5+VmLkxYprxYG5iUKFx8 =LY+e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W302I+VHGNbNYdEm--
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