Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 10:33:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler <dbabler@Rigel.orionsys.com> To: "Mark O'Lear" <Mark.Olear@Colorado.EDU> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog and ntpdate Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960716102852.10461A@Rigel.orionsys.com> In-Reply-To: <31EBCC2F.5FB7@Colorado.EDU>
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On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Mark O'Lear wrote: > Dave Babler wrote: > > > > ... I then then cleaned up my act and changed syslog.conf so > > that the items of interest get logged directly to the console and all is > > well. Or almost. Oddly, I can no longer get info reports from ntpdate > > (run with cron every 2 hours), though I used to. My syslog.conf is now: > > > > ---- /etc/syslog.conf > > *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console > > *.notice;*.alert;auth.debug;*.alert /dev/console > > xntpd logs most of it's stuff to daemon.info plus some warnings with > daemon.warning (none of which get logged according to your above > syslog.conf). Thanks!! Apparently so does ntpdate as well (I run it from crontab - xntpd isn't run, since my time server isn't local. I assume that's the right decision) Adding daemon.* returns the time-correction messages now. > > > so I -assumed- that the console should get all the log messages that root > > used to (except for .err messages)... but the time adjustments don't show. > > I also tried adding: > > > > !ntpdate.* /dev/console > > > > If you want to use the above, I believe that you have to break it into > two lines: > > !ntpdate > *.* /dev/console Yup... works too - and I could have sworn I tried that too at some point. -Dave
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