Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:13:59 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch: make syslog stop spamming any root it finds... Message-ID: <p05101500b8d43db7f264@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <21793.1018042030@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <21793.1018042030@critter.freebsd.dk>
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At 11:27 PM +0200 4/5/02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>For the life of me I cannot understand why we feel the
>need to whine like that at any root which crosses our
>way, so unless somebody can explain to me why this is
>vital, I'll commit the following patch.
There are times when it has been useful to me to have
the messages show up immediately on a root-login window,
instead of at some later time when I happen to read
/var/log/messages. Of course, there are other times
when it absolutely infuriates me when some dumb message
pops up in the middle of what I'm doing -- particularly
if it's a message triggered by something I'm testing.
As to your patch, how about leaving the line for *.alert
there, but commented out. That would just leave it as
an example to show how syslog messages can go to a
logged-in user.
But when I saw the subject for this thread, I admit I was
hoping you meant something different. Is there any good
way we could say "send to a root login on ttyv0, but NOT
to root logged onto any other device"? That way, when I
wouldn't mind syslog spamming me, I could login to the
first virtual terminal, and when I didn't want it I could
log into any of the other ones. I guess I'm asking for a
new "action type", something like:
*.alert root@/dev/ttyv0
or maybe just
*.alert root@ttyv0
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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