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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Some log stuff shows up on text console after recent emerge
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 20:04:18
Message-Id: 201006150840.52992.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Some log stuff shows up on text console after recent emerge by Walter Dnes
1 On Monday 14 June 2010 03:18:27 Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > Any time I insert/remove a USB key, or when iptables has something to
3 > say, it shows up on all text consoles, not just number 12. This seems
4 > to be happening after a recent update. I'm running syslog-ng 3.0.6. I
5 > have not manually touched any config files.
6 >
7 > Searching through Google turned up answers for various other distros,
8 > directing me to various config files that don't exist in Gentoo. Here
9 > is my config for syslog-ng.
10 >
11 > @version: 3.0
12 >
13 > options {
14 > chain_hostnames(no);
15 > stats_freq(43200);
16 > };
17 >
18 > source src {
19 > unix-stream("/dev/log" max-connections(256));
20 > internal();
21 > file("/proc/kmsg");
22 > };
23 >
24 > destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };
25 >
26 > destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
27
28 The above line is meant to send messages to /dev/tty12.
29
30 > log { source(src); destination(messages); };
31 > log { source(src); destination(console_all); };
32
33 Are you sure that your syslog-ng is reading the correct /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-
34 ng.conf ?
35 --
36 Regards,
37 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Some log stuff shows up on text console after recent emerge Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>