On Monday 28 August 2006 04:02, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 08:34:17AM -0500, Pat Double wrote:
> > I had trouble getting to work with my setup, I am using metalog. In fact
> > there would be no log messages at all. It turns out the problem appears
> > to be the square braces in the tag line set in the LOGGER environment
> > var. I removed the braces and it works.
>
> Ok. Does it work if you only remove the first braces, like
> LOGGER="logger -t powersave-${MYNAME}[$$] "
> This style is pretty common, e.g. in udev's firmware.sh, so i'd suppose
> it should work.
>
> Havong a closer look, the powersave-style with
> [$progname][$pid]
> is rather uncommon anyway, so we should probably change it to
> $progname[$pid]
> as everybody else does. If it additionally helps metalog, even better.
If I try with $prognam[$pid] the "[$pid]" is missing, looks like metalog is
removing anything in square braces. Odd.
> > Please comment if this is an acceptable change or if something else is
> > desirable. I just know that with the square braces I get nothing in the
> > log. BTW, metalog adds square braces around the tag.
>
> If it does not workthe proposed change above, i have no problem changing it
> to your version.
>
> Do the daemon messages work for you? For example restarting HAL gives me
> the following:
> Aug 27 10:43:40 susi [powersave]: WARNING (filter_function:208) Hal
> service stopped. Battery information no longer available Maybe those are
> also broken with metalog (and hence the braces should also be removed from
> the daemons messages?
I've never seen daemon messages in the log. I don't believe they are working
either.
> > --- helper_functions.orig 2006-08-19 07:49:18.000000000 -0500
> > +++ helper_functions 2006-08-16 12:45:10.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
> > #
> >
> > MYNAME=${0##*/}
> > -LOGGER="logger -t [powersave-${MYNAME}][$$] "
> > +LOGGER="logger -t powersave-${MYNAME}-$$ "
> >
> > # these variables are set by the daemon in the environment before
> > # this script is executed
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