Re: [logs] tbird rant: syslog.conf, tabs and spaces

From: John Rowan Littell (littejoat_private)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 05:41:30 PDT

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    Lo, Mike Blomgren and the coffee pot sang in unison:
    > On Wed, 7 May 2003, Jason Haar wrote:
    > > On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:57:27PM +0000, Tina Bird wrote:
    > > >
    > > > Why the *bleep* can't it be civilized and write a message to the damn
    > > > system log?  Or to the console? Or to its own special logfile?
    > >
    > > In fact - why does it differentiate in the first place???
    > >
    > > I mean, all the left-hand parts of syslog.conf refer to strings containing
    > > NO SPACES (e.g. mail.notice, *.*) - so why not just accept spaces?
    > >
    >
    > While we are at it, why doesn't syslog also log which facility and level
    > the messages are coming in with?...
    
    Ah, you want FreeBSD (and others?) syslogd, with -v (or -vv) options:
    
         -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.
    
    FreeBSD's also takes care of the tab/space issue.
    
      --rowan
    
    - -- 
    John "Rowan" Littell
    Systems Administrator
    Earlham College Computing Services
    http://www.earlham.edu/~littejo/
    2003-05-07 07:36
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