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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No logging output to tty12
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:08:01
Message-Id: 20201214130733.GA14398@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: No logging output to tty12 by nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt
1 On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:16:05AM +0000, Nuno Silva wrote
2 > On 2020-12-12, Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >
4 > > I used to get stuff going to tty12, e.g.when attaching a USB drive,
5 > > etc. My recent fresh install doesn't have this output. What am I doing
6 > > wrong?
7 >
8 > Have you installed something for syslog? In my installs, I think it is
9 > syslog-ng that does this.
10
11 Thanks; that was my problem. I had installed "sysklogd" but not
12 "syslog-ng". Installing and starting "syslog-ng" now has the messages
13 coming up. I've also added it to default level in rc-update.
14
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16 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
17 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications