Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread Srivastava, Sagar
Logger is the command. Sagar -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 2:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages Is there some way I

Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread Rodger Donaldson
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 06:05:47PM +, Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] wrote: > I did not know of the logger command. The man page and a quick > test. Looks like just what we need, thanks If either is available on your distro, syslog-ng and rsyslogd both include a file agent that can be configured

Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread David Boyes
> Logger from rc.local seems to be working put I'll look into an init script. > Never written one of those. Time to get out the books. It's pretty easy. Copy one of the existing ones (nfsd is a good one to start with -- it has dependencies already, so you can see how they work). For what you wan

Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread David Boyes
> The dependency relationships are traditionally in comments at the start of > each INIT script. 'systemd' changes the game. I won't waste time > discussing that unless you are already suffering under its weight. There are easy tools for scarfing up init script dependencies into systemd. -

Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Troth [mailto:r...@casita.net] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 2:47 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages Yeah ... 'logger' is pretty handy. Is available on other systems too. Following what David said, you will want the SYSLOG service up

Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread Rick Troth
hesda, MD 20892-5628 > 301-594-7474 > > > -Original Message- > From: Veencamp, Jonathon D. [mailto:jdveenc...@fedins.com] > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 2:02 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages > > Have you

Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread David Boyes
27;t use syslog until it's up. > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E] > Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 2:00 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log

Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
...@fedins.com] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 2:02 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages Have you looked at the logger command? It allows user use of the syslog service with control over severity and facility of the messages. Good luck! Jon

Re: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread Veencamp, Jonathon D.
01, 2013 1:00 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages Is there some way I can put messages in either dmesg or /var/log/messages. At boot time we run a script from rc.local and I'd like to record it. I tried an echo command, that didn't

Putting messages in dmesg or /var/log/messages

2013-07-01 Thread Bauer, Bobby (NIH/CIT) [E]
Is there some way I can put messages in either dmesg or /var/log/messages. At boot time we run a script from rc.local and I'd like to record it. I tried an echo command, that didn't work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Bobby Bauer Center for Information Technology National Institut