On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Mick wrote
> On Friday, 5 April 2019 00:18:07 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> > I updated kernel a couple of weeks ago, and had to reboot. I'm not
> > seeing any logging output on tty12. "tail /var/log/messages" shows that
> > it is logging properly to the file. "/etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart"
> > didn't help. To check that it wasn't corruption, I...
> >
> > * /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop
> > * emerge --unmerge syslog-ng
> > * rm -rf /etc/syslog-ng
> > * emerge --unmerge syslog-ng
> > * /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start
> >
> > Still nothing on tty12. Any ideas?
>
> This entry in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf should do it:
>
> # By default messages are logged to tty12...
> destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
Already have that. Here's the entire file...
######################################################################
@version: 3.17
#
# Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux
# https://bugs.gentoo.org/426814
@include "scl.conf"
options {
threaded(yes);
chain_hostnames(no);
# The default action of syslog-ng is to log a STATS line
# to the file every 10 minutes. That's pretty ugly after a while.
# Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of
# how many messages syslog-ng missed (0).
stats_freq(43200);
# The default action of syslog-ng is to log a MARK line
# to the file every 20 minutes. That's seems high for most
# people so turn it down to once an hour. Set it to zero
# if you don't want the functionality at all.
mark_freq(3600);
};
source src { system(); internal(); };
destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };
# By default messages are logged to tty12...
destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
# ...if you intend to use /dev/console for programs like xconsole
# you can comment out the destination line above that references /dev/tty12
# and uncomment the line below.
#destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); };
log { source(src); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); destination(console_all); };
######################################################################
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Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
