Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:07:02 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Matt Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslog marking sendmail output as "kernel:" Message-ID: <05D9E87B-8DDC-4DCA-89A0-C8B1EB361160@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <00e501c81059$4baa60d0$1200a8c0@hermes> References: <200710170005.l9H05BYR092267@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> <00e501c81059$4baa60d0$1200a8c0@hermes>
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On Oct 16, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Matt Emmerton wrote:
> There must be somewhere in the kernel where we're writing to the
> syslog with an empty error string. The syslog routines expect a
> newline-terminated character string, so the lack of a newline
> causes the next entry to be on the same line as the (non-existant)
> kernel message.
Actually, syslog should be just fine without getting a trailing
newline; from the manpage:
" The message is identical to a printf(3) format string, except
that `%m'
is replaced by the current error message. (As denoted by the
global
variable errno; see strerror(3).) A trailing newline is added
if none is
present."
--
-Chuck
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