Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng not outputting to tty12

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Mick wrote
> On Friday, 5 April 2019 00:18:07 BST Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   I updated kernel a couple of weeks ago, and had to reboot. I'm not
> > seeing any logging output on tty12.  "tail /var/log/messages" shows that
> > it is logging properly to the file.  "/etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart"
> > didn't help.  To check that it wasn't corruption, I...
> >
> > * /etc/init.d/syslog-ng stop
> > * emerge --unmerge syslog-ng
> > * rm -rf /etc/syslog-ng
> > * emerge --unmerge syslog-ng
> > * /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start
> >
> >   Still nothing on tty12.  Any ideas?
>
> This entry in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf should do it:
>
> # By default messages are logged to tty12...
> destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };

  Already have that.  Here's the entire file...

######################################################################
@version: 3.17
#
# Syslog-ng default configuration file for Gentoo Linux

# https://bugs.gentoo.org/426814
@include "scl.conf"

options {
  threaded(yes);
  chain_hostnames(no);

  # The default action of syslog-ng is to log a STATS line
  # to the file every 10 minutes.  That's pretty ugly after a while.
  # Change it to every 12 hours so you get a nice daily update of
  # how many messages syslog-ng missed (0).
  stats_freq(43200);
  # The default action of syslog-ng is to log a MARK line
  # to the file every 20 minutes.  That's seems high for most
  # people so turn it down to once an hour.  Set it to zero
  # if you don't want the functionality at all.
  mark_freq(3600);
};

source src { system(); internal(); };

destination messages { file("/var/log/messages"); };

# By default messages are logged to tty12...
destination console_all { file("/dev/tty12"); };
# ...if you intend to use /dev/console for programs like xconsole
# you can comment out the destination line above that references /dev/tty12
# and uncomment the line below.
#destination console_all { file("/dev/console"); };

log { source(src); destination(messages); };
log { source(src); destination(console_all); };
######################################################################

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
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