From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 28 16: 8:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hal9000.bsdonline.org (ffaxvawx3-4-047.cox.rr.com [24.168.203.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F95F37B6A0; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:08:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by hal9000.bsdonline.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 170EC1F25; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:07:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 19:07:56 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines To: Andrew BOGECHO Cc: FreeBSD Stable , Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: syslogd throwing a hissy fit Message-ID: <20010128190756.C372@hal9000.bsdonline.org> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: Andrew BOGECHO , FreeBSD Stable , Poul-Henning Kamp References: <7q9u6t0tkj5ktplad6k8468koar3j8jvi9@4ax.com> <20010124223705.A92362@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <5qou6tkiba9jk6nbjepe9hn2g45hq560ep@4ax.com> <20010121021039.A442@hal9000.bsdonline.org> <7q9u6t0tkj5ktplad6k8468koar3j8jvi9@4ax.com> <20010124223705.A92362@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <20010128162429.A412@hal9000.bsdonline.org> <20010128184801.C16717@cs.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010128184801.C16717@cs.mcgill.ca>; from andrewb@cs.mcgill.ca on Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:48:01PM -0500 Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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