On 2026-08-09, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, test system with OpenBSD 7.9 AMD64 here. > > I installed the rsyslogd pkg. > > I copied the sample conf file over to rsyslog.conf > > Here's the relevant part of rc.conf.local... > > pkg_scripts=rsyslogd > syslogd_flags=NO > rsyslogd_flags= > > I rebooted the test system. > > I then saw ... > > # ps auxww | grep syslog > _rsyslog 23994 0.0 0.1 7452 2560 ?? I 6:47PM 0:00.00 > /usr/local/sbin/rsyslogd > > So the rc.conf.local entries seem to have worked. > > Yet, when I try > > logger test > > /var/log/messages does not show that entry. > > What am I missing?
Unlike syslogd(8) and syslog-ng (via the openbsd module), rsyslogd does not support importing via the /dev/klog protocol used in OpenBSD for local logging*. You could run rsyslog alongside syslogd and forward log entries via a network connection, otherwise rsyslog would need to be modified to support this (probably via a new input module). * (We have a special syscall, sendsyslog(2), used as a backend for syslog/syslog_r calls that does not require a device node or socket on the filesystem to work, which is good for software which should not generally have access to files, and solves some problems around FD exhaustion).
