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Cc: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
Subject: Re: debugging pppoe
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On Monday 11 June 2007 21:54, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 04/06/07 Nikos Vassiliadis said:
> > ppp does not write much on the console. And that is probably a decision
> > made by the authors, since it is meant to be run mostly interactively.
> > You can see its logs in /var/log/ppp.log
>
> Indeed. I turned up the logging and I had to turn it down before it filled
> /var. :)
>
> If I could get it to log like that to the console, then I could supervise
> it with runit, logging via svlogd. I guess there's no way to force that log
> level to stdout?

It looks as though

set log local ...

does what you want: check the manpage for ppp.

Jonathan