I've upgraded(?) to ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/inetutils/inetutils-1.3.2g.tar.gz Things did not improve; logger still does not put log messages into any log files via syslogd. After screwing around for a while I found that "/etc/init.d/syslogd stop" would not stop syslogd either. I killed syslogd manually and restarted manually and logger worked for a test message via "logger -p user.notice hello". A message was inserted into /var/log/user.log and /var/log/syslog. I tried "logger -p kern.info -f /dev/klog &" and nothing happened.
I must say I'm amazed about the "/etc/init.d/syslogd stop" failure. If I run the commands from the script they work. If I run "sh -x /etc/init.d/syslogd stop" the commands I expect are displayed yet syslogd runs on as if nothing happened. Yes, the /var/run/syslog.pid is correct. Sourcing the script with ". /etc/init.d/syslogd stop" fails too. Manually restarting and stopping syslogd seems to only allow one new message to be added to a log file using logger and yes I am varying the message to avoid syslogd collapsing messages into "last message repeated xx times." Removing the "-" from the log file to insist in syncing the log file with each message does not change a thing. So to log /dev/klog to /var/log/syslog I can use # cat /bin/myklog cat /dev/klog > /tmp/klog & sleep 10 kill $! while read line do sleep 5 # don't restart syslogd too fast start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/syslog.pid start-stop-daemon --start -quiet --exec /sbin/syslogd logger -p kern.info -- $line done < /tmp/klog and "grep -v syslogd /var/log/syslog" to view without "syslogd restarted" messages. I'll look into what is wrong with syslogd --- Kenneth Stailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IIRC syslogd doesn't read from files, you use logger(1) to send files or > stdout > to syslogd. Trouble is that I can't get logger(1) to generate any messages. > If it worked you could use: > > logger -p kern.info -f /dev/klog & > > from a startup script. I'll see about getting any updates from > alpha.gnu.org. > > --- Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 10:38:16AM -0700, Kenneth Stailey wrote: > > > Can syslogd be configured to copy /dev/klog to a file when the system > > boots? > > > > Yes, at least that's the idea. It's best if you try a recent snapshot > > of inetutils from alpha.gnu.org. It's something I always wanted to > > verify. Can you please do it? Mark Kettenis reported that he did > > exactly that in the past. > > > > Thanks, > > Marcus __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
