Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:36:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: kernel + /dev/console + syslog Message-ID: <200710230036.l9N0aW4C003736@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
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Hi, This is something I've been persuing on the freebsd-questions and seemed to run into a brick wall of non-answers... So I'd like to pick it up here since it was something PHK spoke about about a year ago... The problem is the /dev/console+kernel WHATEVER that outputs to syslog as "kernel:". Sendmail is sending out alot of "SYSERR" that get logged as mail.err . I have the following syslog : *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.emerg * *.debug /var/log/spool So what happens is a normal message gets logged to the console and goes to /var/log/spool, then the /dev/console+kernel hack end up re-processing it as a "kernel:" message. Its basically constantly triggering my syslog scanner which emails me a few thousand times a day... Anyone know how to write to the console WITHOUT this happening, or without syslog repeating it? Does anyone see any problems/issues/concerns with re-writing the first line to be : *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/ttyv0 Thanks, Tuc
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