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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: syslogd unknown priority name ""
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> 
> 
> Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> > Christoph P. Kukulies stands accused of saying:
> > > 
> > > On a 2.1 system I see spuriously the console message
> > > 
> > > syslogd unknown priority name ""
> > > 
> > > Has anyone else seen this and what might be the cause of this?
> > 
> > Something is attempting to log a message but specifying a null priority
> > name.  Are you running anything "nonstandard"?
> 
> Or...could it be a message coming from syslogd running across a bad entry
> in the syslog.conf file?
/etc/syslog.conf:
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit          /dev/console
*.notice;kern.debug;lpr,auth.info;mail.crit     /var/log/messages
mail.info                                       /var/log/maillog
lpr.info                                        /var/log/lpd-errs
cron.*                                          /var/cron/log
*.err                                           root
*.notice;auth.debug                             root
*.alert                                         root
*.emerg                                         *
!ftpd
*.*                                             /var/log/ftpd
 
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tildes aren't actually there, just to show there is an empty line.
Also I don't recall what the !ftpd line was for. ftpd is wu-ftpd
which logs to /var/log/xferlog.



> 
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> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de