Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:35:32 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: syslogd unknown priority name "" Message-ID: <19991004163532.A61717@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <19991004150723.Z63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:07:23PM %2B0200 References: <199910040940.LAA39225@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19991004150723.Z63946@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:07:23PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote:
> On [19991004 12:17], Christoph Kukulies (kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) wrote:
> >
> >3.2:
> >
> >I'm continously getting
> >
> > syslogd: unknown priority name ""
> > syslogd: unknown priority name ""
> >
> >in my console log.
>
> Which programs are logged before or after those messages?
It seems that the
'syslogd: unknown priority name "" '
doesn't appear in the log file. It only is on ttyv0 resp. xconsole.
>
> What daemons/programs are running when it logs that messages? [hint: ps
> -ax]
Difficult to say. What's special may be tcpwrapper (tcpd), procmail.
>
> Because I think some program is trying to issue a syslog() funtion but
> it fills the first parameter of syslog(priority,...) wrongly and thus
> you get a `unknown priority name'.
I see. Sounds obvious.
>
> See syslog(3).
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl
> The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>;
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--
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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