[CentOS] Syslog

Tue Jun 27 23:25:09 UTC 2006
Steven Vishoot <sir_funzone at yahoo.com>


--- Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 16:49 -0400, Sam Drinkard
> wrote:
> >   
> >> William L. Maltby wrote:
> >>     
> >>> <snip>
> >>>       
> >
> >   
> >> I don't 
> >> know what else to do at this point.  I'm gonna
> take a break and think 
> >> about it.  I restarted a bunch of services that I
> think used to be 
> >> running, but I really believe they have nothing
> to do with syslogd.  As 
> >> you stated, man syslogd and see how to start in
> debug mode.  Strace 
> >> starts it and detaches as it should, so nothing
> to really see there.
> >>     
> >
> > NO! You need to run the logger in debug where it
> does no go into BG for
> > strace to capture everything!
> >   
> OK.. problem solved.  I overlooked an entry I had
> set up in 
> /etc/syslog.conf that called local8 for the new
> software I had 
> installed.  I removed the logging and stuff is now
> writing to messages 
> as it should.  Gotta figure out now how to enable
> the local8 logging for 
> the LDM software.
> 
> Many thanks to all for your help, and sorry to have
> caused the problem 
> myself.  Should have looked closer at the
> syslog.conf.  Didn't remember 
> making the change.
> 
> Sam
> 
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Now this is a good example of having that one software
that Alex suggested (dconf) so you do not run into
this problem again.... :-)


Steven
 

"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."