From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 4 7:35:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (nets5.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE97A1542B for ; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:35:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by nets5.rz.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/7) with ESMTP id QAA11393; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:35:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.1a/8.9.1/3) with ESMTP id QAA29700; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:35:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.9.2/8.6.9) id QAA61805; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:35:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:35:32 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: Christoph Kukulies , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd unknown priority name "" Message-ID: <19991004163532.A61717@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> References: <199910040940.LAA39225@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19991004150723.Z63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: <19991004150723.Z63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:07:23PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:07:23PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > On [19991004 12:17], Christoph Kukulies (kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) wrote: > > > >3.2: > > > >I'm continously getting > > > > syslogd: unknown priority name "" > > syslogd: unknown priority name "" > > > >in my console log. > > Which programs are logged before or after those messages? It seems that the 'syslogd: unknown priority name "" ' doesn't appear in the log file. It only is on ttyv0 resp. xconsole. > > What daemons/programs are running when it logs that messages? [hint: ps > -ax] Difficult to say. What's special may be tcpwrapper (tcpd), procmail. > > Because I think some program is trying to issue a syslog() funtion but > it fills the first parameter of syslog(priority,...) wrongly and thus > you get a `unknown priority name'. I see. Sounds obvious. > > See syslog(3). > > HTH, > > -- > Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl > The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project > Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best > United we stand, divided we fall. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message