/etc/default/sysklogd?

2009-05-07 Thread Mathias Koerber
In Debian 4, it seems that the sysklogd initscript does not check any /etc/default (like sysconfig in redhat) file, and in fact sets SYSLOGD="" SO I gather I need to edit the initscript if I want to change syslogd's commandline params, or is there some other local mechanism that al

Re: How to stop escaping in syslog (rsyslog and sysklogd)

2008-09-03 Thread Jabka Atu
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good day ,. > > I'm searching for a way to stop the escaping of rsyslog for example if i > send a message that include \n it is described as "#012" : > > /** > * Lets test the newlinje issues and the Length > */ > > #include

How to stop escaping in syslog (rsyslog and sysklogd)

2008-09-03 Thread Jabka Atu
Good day ,. I'm searching for a way to stop the escaping of rsyslog for example if i send a message that include \n it is described as "#012" : /** * Lets test the newlinje issues and the Length */ #include #include #include #include int main(void) { char * foo ; int i = 0; foo = (char

sysklogd no longer logs

2005-07-21 Thread Willie Gnarlson
know iptables is working. $ dpkg -l sysklogd | grep ii ii sysklogd 1.4.1-17 System Logging Daemon $ grep '\-m 0' /etc/init.d/sysklogd SYSLOGD="-m 0 -a /chroot/named/dev/log" When I issue a `/etc/init.d/sysklogd restart`, I see this in /var/log/messages Jul 21 14:40:0

Re: Why does /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd depend on /usr/share/doc/sysklogd?

2004-02-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:35:33AM +, David Goodenough wrote: > Why do the cron.daily/weekly sysklogd script exit doing nothing if the > /usr/share/doc/sysklogd directory not exist? It rightly checks that > the binaries it needs are there, but the doc directory is purely > d

Why does /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd depend on /usr/share/doc/sysklogd?

2004-02-10 Thread David Goodenough
Why do the cron.daily/weekly sysklogd script exit doing nothing if the /usr/share/doc/sysklogd directory not exist? It rightly checks that the binaries it needs are there, but the doc directory is purely documentation. I hit this on a stripped down emebedded installation which I noticed was

(newbie), sysklogd freezes for minutes in booting

2003-10-09 Thread Dongxu Li
Hello All, I saw this before, but forgot the solution. My Debian/testing just spends minutes in starting sysklogd, when there's no network interface presents. The similar things happened to sendmail, xdm also. Thanks a lot! Regards, Dongxu Li -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Logging packets -- sysklogd / klogd / iptables

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Quoting Christopher S. Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, I'm going crazy here trying to get iptables to log packets to a > file called /var/log/kern.info. > What am I missing? And what is the right procedure to clear a log > without causing sysklogd / klogd to choke

Logging packets -- sysklogd / klogd / iptables

2001-07-30 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
-/var/log/kern.info But /var/log/kern.info is empty: -rw-r-1 root adm0 Jul 30 10:04 /var/log/kern.info I've stopped and started /etc/init.d/sysklogd and /etc/init.d/klogd multiple times (and in various orders), as well as re-running iptables. I've also tri

sysklogd vs. msyslog

2000-11-20 Thread Johannes Zellner
are there any preferences of sysklogd vs. msyslog? -- Johannes

Re: sysklogd breaks noflushd

2000-11-12 Thread Joey Hess
Krzys Majewski wrote: > This the potato sysklogd and a noflushd compiled from the > sources in woody. > Presumably the problem is noflushd logging a "Spinning > down..." message, which gets flushed to the hard drive, heh. > Now, I've prefixed all the file

sysklogd breaks noflushd

2000-11-12 Thread Krzys Majewski
Noflushd spins the disk up immediately after spinning it down, unless I do a etc/init.d/sysklogd stop. This the potato sysklogd and a noflushd compiled from the sources in woody. Presumably the problem is noflushd logging a "Spinning down..." message, which gets flushed to the hard

Re: Can't reinstall sysklogd

1999-11-22 Thread ktb
Sorry to keep replying to my own posts but I have sysklogd installed now. The thing I did to get around the errors was an accident. Instead of going into dselect and selecting sysklogd to install, I ran dselect again and skipped selecting (I had previously done that) and went strait to install

Re: Can't reinstall sysklogd

1999-11-22 Thread ktb
Ok, I left things last night late and am back at it. I booted up today and tried reinstalling sysklogd again. This time dselect tells me, Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "/var/run" (Missing operator before run?) syntax error at -e line 1, near

Can't reinstall sysklogd

1999-11-22 Thread ktb
I removed my sysklogd package with dselect off my Slink system in order to fix a screw up I did. At any rate now when I try and install sysklogd with dselect I get the following errors: syntax error at -e line 1, near "startup links for " Bareword found where operator expected at -e li

Re: sysklogd & /dev/log

1999-06-15 Thread kerkhoff
?SJun14 0:00 /sbin/syslogd root 32683 0.1 0.5 1404 760 ?SJun14 0:00 /sbin/klogd gateway:/# ls -l /dev/log ls: /dev/log: No such file or directory Martin Schulze wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > For some reason sysklogd i

sysklogd & /dev/log

1999-06-15 Thread kerkhoff
For some reason sysklogd is acting up on me. Klog starts up fine, but syslog complains about /dev/log: Invalid Argument. Why?? I've looked for hours, but couldn't find why. /dev/log is named pipe that is supposed to be created by syslog. I've tried removing & purging &

sysklogd HACK

1999-04-20 Thread Account for Debian group mail
Here is info I found on the redhat.com system about the sysklogd Hack. Is anyone working on a fix for this? Thanks, Ken Rea -- Package: Sysklogd Updated: 01-Apr-1999 Problem: (01-Apr-1999):Security Fix An

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-25 Thread M.C. Vernon
able to boot up from my rescue disk and chroot to my system and > log in as root, but was not able to do it if I booted w/o the rescue disk. Do > you know how the sysklogd was able to stop all login's, su's and my postgre? Thus - root logins, su's and (I guess postgresql) c

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-25 Thread Bill Van Devender
and chroot to my system and log in as root, but was not able to do it if I booted w/o the rescue disk. Do you know how the sysklogd was able to stop all login's, su's and my postgre? Bill On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: >The latest slink updat

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Pete Harlan wrote: > > The latest slink update to sysklogd 1.3-29 is SERIOUSLY broken. I > > installed it and could no longer become root. If you have installed it, > > Perhaps then a new version should be uploaded; this version would fail > during

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-21 Thread Pete Harlan
> The latest slink update to sysklogd 1.3-29 is SERIOUSLY broken. I > installed it and could no longer become root. If you have installed it, Perhaps then a new version should be uploaded; this version would fail during install with a brief explanation, so we don't have to hear peopl

Re: Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Victor Torrico
Quoting Mitch Blevins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Max wrote: > > Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all > > the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. > > > > Thanks, > > Max > > sysklogd seems t

Re: Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Shaleh
Mitch, check /etc/syslog.conf and see what it does w/ ppp. You may need to edit it. On 19-Oct-98 Mitch Blevins wrote: > Max wrote: >> Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all >> the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. >&

Re: Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
Max wrote: > Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all > the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. > > Thanks, > Max sysklogd seems to be working for me with -30. However, the ppp.log hasn't been updated since th

RE: Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Shaleh
On 19-Oct-98 Max wrote: > Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all > the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. > Version -30 has been reported safe.

Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Max
Is the latest version of sysklogd in slink (-30) OK now? I saw all the warning about -29 and I'm hoping that those bugs were fixed. Thanks, Max

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-18 Thread David E. Stern
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > The latest slink update to sysklogd 1.3-29 is SERIOUSLY broken. I > installed it and could no longer become root. If you have installed it, > you will need to boot with your rescue disk (you do have one, don't you?) > and either disabl

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-18 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Bob Nielsen wrote: > The latest slink update to sysklogd 1.3-29 is SERIOUSLY broken. I > installed it and could no longer become root. If you have installed it, > you will need to boot with your rescue disk (you do have one, don't you?) > and either disable sysklogd (chm

WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-18 Thread Bob Nielsen
The latest slink update to sysklogd 1.3-29 is SERIOUSLY broken. I installed it and could no longer become root. If you have installed it, you will need to boot with your rescue disk (you do have one, don't you?) and either disable sysklogd (chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd) or install the

Re: mysterious message at boot from /etc/init.d/sysklogd

1997-08-20 Thread Will Lowe
On 19 Aug 1997, Greg Stark wrote: > # /etc/init.d/sysklogd start > Starting /sbin/syslogd... > /etc/init.d/sysklogd: line 38: 200 Interrupt start-stop-daemon > --start --verbose --exec /sbin/syslogd $SYSLOGD > Starting /sbin/klogd... I just noticed the other day t

mysterious message at boot from /etc/init.d/sysklogd

1997-08-20 Thread Greg Stark
it doesn't seem to cause any negative effects but i can't find the string "Interrupt" in either the bash binary or the start-stop-daemon binary so i'm a little confused about where the message is coming from. # /etc/init.d/sysklogd start Starting /sbin/syslogd... /etc/i

Re: sysklogd

1997-05-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
print = CE 03 10 AF 32 81 18 58 9D 32 C2 AB 93 6D C4 72 -- On Fri, 23 May 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: :Hello, : :I have just upgraded my Debian 1.2 to frozen disturbution. So far, there :is no problem. However, when I reboot the machine, the machine stops for a :few seconds after launching sysklog

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Victor Torrico
t; > > > --alex-- > > > > You hit the nail on the head and fixed my problem. I was using dpkg > (1.4.0.14) and this was causing the problem. I purged and reinstalled > sysklogd (-15 package) using dpkg (1.4.0.8) and all was well. No more > core dumps and segmentatio

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Rick Jones
On Fri, 9 May 1997, Alex Romosan wrote: > i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've > downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to > have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. Along these lines, does anybody know why syslogd in pack

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Victor Torrico
d and fixed my problem. I was using dpkg (1.4.0.14) and this was causing the problem. I purged and reinstalled sysklogd (-15 package) using dpkg (1.4.0.8) and all was well. No more core dumps and segmentation faults. Thanks bunches! Cheers, Victor -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-09 Thread Alex Romosan
i think the problem is with the latest dpkg packages (1.4.0.14). i've downgraded to 1.4.0.8 from unstable and it works fine. it seemed to have worked fine up until 1.4.0.13 but i could be wrong. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the min

sysklogd dumps core

1997-05-08 Thread Victor Torrico
sysklogd used to work fine. Recently it has started dumping core. I purged and reloaded the -15 version of the package and it still does the same thing. Here is the error message during boot (runlevel 2): Starting system log daemon: syslogd klogd/etc/init.d/sysklogd: line 51: 429

sysklogd 10 sec. delay at boot

1997-04-22 Thread John M. Rulnick
The latest sysklogd (syslogd) takes 10 seconds to load at boot. Is this normal? Why the change? It used to be negligible. Signed, Curious in Massachusetts -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: sysklogd 1.3-13

1997-02-20 Thread James LewisMoss
>>>>> "Mikael" == Mikael Hallendal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mikael> Hi! Why is it that the new sysklogd in 'unstable' dependens Mikael> on an old bash and not on the new one? Mikael> Is there any packages that dependes on bash 2.0-2 or

Re: bash2.0 & sysklogd

1997-02-20 Thread Martin Schulze
Siggy Brentrup writes: > > Package: bash > > Version: 2.0-2 > > > > Package: sysklogd > > Version: 1.3-12 > > > > on my system, and running `sysklogd start' I see > > > > # ./sysklogd start > > starting /sbin/syslogd ... > &

sysklogd 1.3-13

1997-02-20 Thread Mikael Hallendal
Hi! Why is it that the new sysklogd in 'unstable' dependens on an old bash and not on the new one? Is there any packages that dependes on bash 2.0-2 or is it just to downgrade it to the one in section stable so that I can get sysklogd working

Re: bash2.0 & sysklogd

1997-02-20 Thread Neal Becker
As explained when I first raised this question on gnu.bash.bug, the problem is that sysklogd sends an interrupt signal to it's parent. Bash used to just ignore this, now it prints a warning message. sysklogd should be told not to do this. You can ignore the message. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: sysklogd problems

1996-06-13 Thread Richard Lovison
On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Richard Lovison wrote: > I just discovered that my system logging utilities stopped functioning two > days ago after I did some upgrades. I attempted to reinstall sysklogd > 1.3-6 but received the following error message: > > warning: /etc/init.d/sysklog

sysklogd problems

1996-06-13 Thread Richard Lovison
I just discovered that my system logging utilities stopped functioning two days ago after I did some upgrades. I attempted to reinstall sysklogd 1.3-6 but received the following error message: warning: /etc/init.d/sysklogd doesn't exist during rc.d setup. Error processing sysklogd I

Re: sysklogd upgrade

1996-06-11 Thread Ian Jackson
Richard Lovison writes ("sysklogd upgrade"): > I recently upgraded from syslogd 1.3-2 to sysklogd 1.3-6 manually using > dpkg. When I started dselect I was informed that syslogd and sysklogd were > in conflict, the configuration files for syslogd were still on the system. >

sysklogd upgrade

1996-06-06 Thread Richard Lovison
I recently upgraded from syslogd 1.3-2 to sysklogd 1.3-6 manually using dpkg. When I started dselect I was informed that syslogd and sysklogd were in conflict, the configuration files for syslogd were still on the system. I proceeded to purge syslogd but was informed I couldn't because it

Uploading sysklogd 1.3-6

1996-05-28 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi folks! I'll upload a new bugfixed release to master later. Format: 1.5 Date: Tue May 28 00:58:45 MET DST 1996 Package: sysklogd Version: 1.3-6 Section: base Priority: required Essential: yes Distribution: unstable Architecture: i386 Depends: libc5 Conflicts: syslogd Rep

Uploading sysklogd 1.3-5

1996-05-25 Thread Martin Schulze
Hi folks! I'll upload a new bugfixed release to master later. Format: 1.5 Date: Thu May 23 20:29:26 MET DST 1996 Package: sysklogd Version: 1.3-5 Section: base Priority: required Essential: yes Distribution: unstable Architecture: i386 Depends: libc5 Conflicts: syslogd Rep

Re: sysklogd problem

1996-05-24 Thread K J MacDonald
ead of the traditional TakeConsole/GiveConsole scripts run by xdm? Is there a pressing reason? Kenny. > > Hello, Im having a slight problem with the newest sysklogd from the > unstable tree. I upgraded to 1.3-2 and now My named pipe /dev/xconsole > doesnt work from boot (I have

sysklogd problem

1996-05-24 Thread rshutt
Hello, Im having a slight problem with the newest sysklogd from the unstable tree. I upgraded to 1.3-2 and now My named pipe /dev/xconsole doesnt work from boot (I have to HUP the syslogd to make it start logging to /dev/xconsole) The permissions on /dev/xconsole are prw-r--r-- 1