On 6/9/2013 at 10:57 AM David Lang wrote: |On Sun, 9 Jun 2013, Mike. wrote: | |> I'm running FreeBSD 9.1. |> |> When I uncomment the console.info line, rsyslog7 gives me an unknown |> facility error. |> |> Is it possible to enable console.info on FreeBSD with rsyslog? |> |> |> # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console |> # to /var/log/console.log |> # touch /var/log/console.log and chmod it to mode 600 |> # before it will work |> #console.info /var/log/console.log | |what facility number is "console"? | |this is the second time recently that we've had a report of *BSD putting a |strange name on a faility. The problem is how do we make it possible for |the |*BSD people to use the non-standard names without breaking thngs for |everyone |else, especially in an environment with multiple types of systems. =============
There's never an easy answer to that question. But I would rephrase it as, how do you make rsyslog more useful to users of various OS's when all the OS's may not have similar feature-sets? In any case, by your answer, it looks like I need to revert to the syslog daemon. Thanks. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
