On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Dale Miller wrote: > On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > > > Does stuff get written to the files in /var/log and not to the xconsole? > > Check the syslogd.conf carefully. There have to be tabs between the two > > columns, not spaces. Restart syslogd with > > kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` > > Yes stuff goes to the log files. It just doesn't go to xconsole. > When I restart syslogd as you mentioned after xdm has started > and I have logged, suddenly xconsole starts to work. Why do I > need to restart syslogd for this to work?? Works great once I > restart syslogd.
When syslogd finds it can't write to a named pipe (because the pipe has nothing listening at the other end, for example) it just starts ignoring it. When you send it a SIGHUP it will reopen the pipe and start writing to it again. As long as xconsole gets started reasonably soon after syslogd (eg. in the Xsetup_0 script for xdm) you should be ok. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
