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

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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

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John "Rowan" Littell
Systems Administrator
Earlham College Computing Services
http://www.earlham.edu/~littejo/
2003-05-07 07:36
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