Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:07:56 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@altavista.net> To: Andrew BOGECHO <andrewb@cs.mcgill.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <stable@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: syslogd throwing a hissy fit Message-ID: <20010128190756.C372@hal9000.bsdonline.org> In-Reply-To: <20010128184801.C16717@cs.mcgill.ca>; from andrewb@cs.mcgill.ca on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:48:01PM -0500 References: <7q9u6t0tkj5ktplad6k8468koar3j8jvi9@4ax.com> <s7hu6torq3c79usoqpgig3b56gg9d5n6jr@4ax.com> <20010124223705.A92362@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <5qou6tkiba9jk6nbjepe9hn2g45hq560ep@4ax.com> <20010121021039.A442@hal9000.bsdonline.org> <7q9u6t0tkj5ktplad6k8468koar3j8jvi9@4ax.com> <s7hu6torq3c79usoqpgig3b56gg9d5n6jr@4ax.com> <20010124223705.A92362@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <20010128162429.A412@hal9000.bsdonline.org> <20010128184801.C16717@cs.mcgill.ca>
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Andrew, > It has been happening to me only when I pipe things to /dev/console. > Otherwise none of the messages show up. Hmm. I just sent a bunch of stuff to /dev/console including a "tail -f" on a writing log file as you did, but didn't see anything unusual. I then removed the /dev/console line from syslog.conf and started syslogd, but it had another tantrum. > Any tips would be helpful. The finger is still pointing to the following MFC (from cvsweb): ----8<--- CVS log for src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c Default branch: MAIN Revision 1.59.2.4 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Tue Jan 9 06:51:37 2001 UTC (2 weeks, 5 days ago) by phk Branch: RELENG_4 Changes since 1.59.2.3: +3 -1 lines Diff to previous 1.59.2.3 (colored) to branchpoint 1.59 (colored) next main 1.60 (colored) MFC: Add LOG_CONSOLE and make sure it doesn't end up on /dev/console. ----8<--- Maybe the committer, Poul-Henning Kamp, can shed some light. I've CC'ed him on this. If that doesn't get us anywhere, I'l go ahead and file a PR. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@altavista.net | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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