On Thu, 16 Aug, 2001 at 11:53:22 -0700, dtmat_private wrote: > FreeBSD has a syslogd(8) option that I find useful: > > -v Verbose logging. If specified once, the numeric facility and > priority are logged with each locally-written message. If speci- > fied more than once, the names of the facility and priority are > logged with each locally-written message solaris 8 syslogd defaults to a similar behaviour: it gives each message a stamp of the form [ID <msgid> <facility>.<level>], where msgid is (afaik) a hash of the message logged, generated by the msgid command. so, for instance, the following log entry: Aug 16 13:05:17 my_client automountd[193]: [ID 784820 daemon.error] server my_server not responding corresponds to the second line of: % strings `which automountd` | grep responding | msgid 190415 servers %s not responding: %s 784820 server %s not responding 494081 server not responding 543504 %s server not responding%s 543504 %s server not responding%s 125655 get_pathconf: %s: server not responding: %s i can see how this could be useful for identifying messages quickly, though i don't use it myself. -chaos --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
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