At 2008-05-20 16:21:01+0000, Oliver Fromme writes: > Nick Barnes wrote: > > One of our FreeBSD boxes has a SCSI controller and disk, which showed > > problems earlier this week. There was a lot of of chatter from the > > SCSI driver in /var/log/messages and to the console. However, the > > console is unattended and we only discovered the problem subsequently > > because /var/log/console.log didn't show any of the chatter. > > The console.* syslog facility only logs real console output, > i.e. things written to /dev/console. That does _not_ include > output from the kernel. > > For logging kernel output you have to use the kern.* syslog > facility.
OK. So when syslogd directs output to the console, it does not also treat it as console.* output? Thanks for this explanation. I'll modify my syslog.conf accordingly. Nick B _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
