Re: SyslogFacility

[Chip Seraphine]

I submitted a patch for this a couple weeks ago; it should be in the 
cfengine-bugs archive.  If you can't find it let me know and I'll send it to 
you off-list.

On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:44, Jason Allen wrote:
> Kurt,
>
> I'm running Linux - RH 7.3 and sysklogd-1.4.1-8.
>
> I have the following line in syslog.conf:
> local4.*      /var/log/messages/cfengine.log
>
> I don't think syslog.conf is the problem. If you look at the syslog
> debug output below you can see the that the syslog facility for the
> cfengine log record is daemon and the level is error. This indicates to
> me that the problem is somewhere in cfengine, not syslog or syslog.conf.
>
> syslog debug output:
>
> Successful select, descriptor count = 1, Activity on: 3
> Message from UNIX socket: #3
> Message length: 161, File descriptor: 3.
> logmsg: daemon.err<27>, flags 2, from xxx, msg Nov 20 13:55:19
>         ^^^^^^^^^^
> cfservd[29454]:  ID from connecting host: (SYNCH 1069358119 STAT
> /var/cfengine/masterfiles/files/linux/special/syslog_conf)
> Called fprintlog, logging to FILE /var/log/messages
> Calling select, active file descriptors (max 3): 3
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Allen
> Fermilab
>
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 14:25, Kurt Lieber wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:58:54PM -0600 or thereabouts, Jason Allen 
wrote:
> > > I'm trying to get the syslogfacility feature to work on Linux with
> > > cfengine-2.1.0p1. I have SyslogFacility = ( LOG_LOCAL4 ) in my control
> > > section but cfengine errors continue to go to daemon.
> >
> > You don't mention what OS you're running this on...at least in linux, you
> > also have to set up /etc/syslog.conf correctly.  I imagine solaris and
> > the other *nixes have something similar.
> >
> > --kurt
> >
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