On July 3, 2015 10:34:49 PM GMT+02:00, john smith <[email protected]> wrote: >On 7/3/15, Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 03/07/2015 13:53, john smith wrote: >>> I wonder then where does this text come from? It may be specific to >>> NOOBS but I am not sure. >> >> When syslogd is not running, syslog() will send its output to >> /dev/console, which is what you are observing. > >Oh, stupid me. I should have noticed openlog() with LOG_CONS a couple >of lines above. Still so much to learn. > >One more question though: there is always a date printed before >login[<PID>] so that the entire line look like this: > >Jan 1 00:01:36 login[515]: root login on 'tty2' > >I tested opensyslog() with exactly the same parameters as in >loginutils/login.c on my Slackware box and date is not printed. There >is applet_name used as an ident argument in Busybox but AFAIK it only >contains applet name such as "login" without a date. So how is the >date printed?
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/closelog.html See timestamp. HTH, _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
