On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:32:55 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> Take a look at /etc/rsyslog.conf >> >> Nothing of interest (for the matter) here. >> >>> and >>> man rsyslog.conf rsyslogd >> >> Still no way to know where messages are being dropped. >> >> I would like to see more integration/compatibility in this regard >> coming >> from all distributions. >> >>> All your questions will be answered (albeit cryptically) there. >> >> Mmm... I'm afraid they're not ;-) >> > > Perhaps I didn't understand your question. > > Those man pages, along with the rsyslog.conf file will give you the > general rules governing which messages get sent into which log files. Yes. And this is the same for every distribution. But no, I was not speaking about that but the differences between linux distributions which configure different logging settings. For example, and as I said before, there is no "/var/log/syslog" in openSUSE and what Debian sends to syslog openSUSE sends it to "/var/log/ messages" which is also available in Debian but holding different information. Which is nothing but a bit of mess for system administratrors and that's why I would like to see a higher degree of integration (standardization) in this field, logs (at least for me) are an important part of any operating system. > Any particular messages will be a special case of those general rules. > I did say that they were cryptic. So the application of the rules may > require specialized knowledge, often available only by examining the > source code. Yes, I know it can be tweaked but I was referring to the defaults. > Perhaps your question was prompted by the need for that specialized > knowledge? If that's the case, I apologize for misunderstanding. Well, it's far more simpler than that: I was only "whining" for not having the same log files, located in the same place and holding the same information between the different distributions :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jkkufu$7bd$8...@dough.gmane.org
