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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng not outputting to tty12
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 22:41:56
Message-Id: 6536779.2LJAh74hlk@dell_xps
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng not outputting to tty12 by Walter Dnes
1 On Friday, 5 April 2019 00:18:07 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > I updated kernel a couple of weeks ago, and had to reboot. I'm not
3 > seeing any logging output on tty12. "tail /var/log/messages" shows that
4 > it is logging properly to the file. "/etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart"
5 > didn't help. To check that it wasn't corruption, I...
6 >
7 > * /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop
8 > * emerge --unmerge syslog-ng
9 > * rm -rf /etc/syslog-ng
10 > * emerge --unmerge syslog-ng
11 > * /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start
12 >
13 > Still nothing on tty12. Any ideas?
14
15 This entry in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf should do it:
16
17 # By default messages are logged to tty12...
18 destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
19
20 --
21 Regards,
22 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng not outputting to tty12 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>