On Sun, 9 Jun 2013, Mike. wrote:
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.
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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.
It's not different feature sets.
syslog has standard facility definitions, and when they are sent over the
network they are identified by a number. What we are talking about here are
different names for the same number. Rsyslog implements the name for that number
that matches RFC 3164 and RFC 5425. If you use that name with rsyslog on your
*BSD system, it will work. It will even work on logs sent from other *BSD
systems that are not running rsyslog and do use odd names locally.
I have heard of different names for facility 4 (security/authentication), but I
have never heard of a facility called "console", and I'm not finding it in a
google search.
David Lang
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