On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Apr 17, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Nate Lawson wrote: > > > Perhaps a silly question, but is it too late at this stage of the game > > > to try logging S5 events to syslog before dying? I agree with Stephen, > > > logging 'shutdown by powerbutton' surely beats what might otherwise > > > resemble a spontaneous reboot? Or is something already logged here? > > > > I'm not resisting this, but I'm having trouble seeing the importance. > > What happens differently than if someone hits CTRL-ALT-DEL on a virtual > > console? > > Well, I'd like to get a one-line message saying "rebooted by CTRL-ALT-DEL" > versus "shutdown by powerbutton". Other systems would log a one-liner like > "system rebooted by /etc/shutdown -i 6: _MESSAGE_"....
I don't know about C-A-D as I've always disabled it in my kernels - lest some 'windows expert' may be hoping to see a TaskList - but 'reboot' and 'shutdown -[rhp] ..' are already logged nicely: May 31 16:25:26 paqi reboot: rebooted by root May 31 16:25:26 paqi syslogd: exiting on signal 15 May 31 16:26:30 paqi syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Mar 31 20:04:14 paqi shutdown: power-down by smithi: down after fixing localtime Sydney Mar 31 19:04:32 paqi named[16442]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953 Mar 31 19:04:33 paqi named[16442]: exiting Mar 31 19:04:33 paqi syslogd: exiting on signal 15 Mar 31 19:07:16 paqi syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel I suspect a 'windows expert' would have to break down doors to get to Nate's boxes, but for those of us condemned to being remote catherders, a powerbutton shutdown message would be helpful. cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
