From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 7 3:23: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 443FC37B7C7 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 03:23:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 7 Aug 2000 11:23:05 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 11:23:05 +0100 From: David Malone To: Gregory Bond Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: logging kern.info to remote machine Message-ID: <20000807112305.A26510@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: <200008070808.SAA03793@lightning.itga.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200008070808.SAA03793@lightning.itga.com.au>; from gnb@itga.com.au on Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:08:45PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 06:08:45PM +1000, Gregory Bond wrote: > Running "syslog -d" on both machines, and then "logger -p kern.info test" on > the source machine, we see the packet is received by syslogd on the loghost, > But it is never logged anywhere. This is despite the line in syslog.conf that > says > *.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages > > However a message at kern.err _is_ properly logged on the loghost by this rule > (presumably because it is trapped by the "*.notice" clause). > > Any clues? I note that if syslogd reads a message which claims to be a kernel message from anything other than the kernel, it replaces the facility with user.whatever. You're probably running into this. Maybe this should be listed in the syslogd or syslog.conf man page? David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message