On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:12 am, Mr. Geek wrote:
Once again, I'm back with a seemingly odd situation. Running my server on Mandrake 10.1.
Syslogd has been showing a non-stop list of log entries on my server's monitor. The server is starting in console mode (X, XFS and DM are not set to start on bootup, but can be started manually), and it starts displaying syslogd and klogd entries or data.
I thought that syslogd was supposed to store it's entries in a log file(s), bot on the console. Can someone explain what's happening? I've never seen this before and I don't want to have to shut down the syslog & klogd daemons.
Just a wild guess ..but are you running logrotate IIRC you should be from what I have read on these lists
Aron; I just did a quick read on the functions included in logrotate (which is installed and called by crond whenever necessary). It doesn't seem capable of displaying system events on the screen. So, if that's correct, I'm back at my original question.
How do I prevent syslogd from showing events on the screen? Is it not normal to simply pass these events to the correct log file in /var/log ?
My understanding is that syslogd/klogd would only output messages to the screen/console/monitor when it was either in debugging mode or if it had been specifically configured to do it. Since this is a relatively fresh install of Mandrake 10.1, nothing's been done to modify syslogd/klogd at all. It is currently a default install of syslogd/klogd.
It seems to be displaying every single log entry on the console as they're being generated, instead of urgent messages or debug info which would only be occasional if at all.
This also seems to happen even if no one is logged onto the server locally, and also happens when I 'ssh' into the server remotely. The log info/data immediately starts to show up on the remote terminal.
Since it's a default install (ie; no one's modified syslogd/klogd daemons at all), why would this be happening? If it happens here, wouldn't it be happening for everyone running Mandrake 10.1 Official on a server where syslogd/klogd are default installs and activated on boot?
Other suggestions?
-- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712
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