From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 22:26:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77338106564A for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:26:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2733B8FC19 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:26:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id mAILnK9S015440; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:49:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@bunrab.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id mAILnKfA015439; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:49:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:49:19 -0800 From: David Wolfskill To: Ed Schouten Message-ID: <20081118214919.GM83287@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Mail-Followup-To: David Wolfskill , Ed Schouten , FreeBSD Hackers References: <20081028081154.GQ6808@hoeg.nl> <20081118213410.GA81783@hoeg.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W302I+VHGNbNYdEm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081118213410.GA81783@hoeg.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: [Testers wanted] /dev/console cleanups X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:26:29 -0000 --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--