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Date:      Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:35:32 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
Cc:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: syslogd unknown priority name ""
Message-ID:  <19991004163532.A61717@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <19991004150723.Z63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:07:23PM %2B0200
References:  <199910040940.LAA39225@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19991004150723.Z63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org>

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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 <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
> 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


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