Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ashley Moran wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: > or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the > ttyvs are launched before syslogng Can you recommend a good description of the FreeBSD boot process? The handbook is a bit sketchy and only goes into the initial stages. I've t

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-16 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Freitag, 16. September 2005 11:05 CEST schrieb Ashley Moran: > Norberto Meijome wrote: > > or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the > > ttyvs are launched before syslogng > > Can you recommend a good description of the FreeBSD boot process? The man (8) boot (excellen

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-16 Thread Ashley Moran
Norberto Meijome wrote: > or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the > ttyvs are launched before syslogng Can you recommend a good description of the FreeBSD boot process? The handbook is a bit sketchy and only goes into the initial stages. I've tried flirting through

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: Perhaps the ttyv7 isn't properly created until after all the local rc scripts are run? That's all I can think. you may want to edit the syslogng.sh to add some debug lines to see if ttyv7 is up @ that point in time. based on the result of this, yo

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Norberto Meijome wrote: Perhaps the ttyv7 isn't properly created until after all the local rc scripts are run? That's all I can think. you may want to edit the syslogng.sh to add some debug lines to see if ttyv7 is up @ that point in time. based on the result of this, you may want to backgr

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Norberto Meijome
Ashley Moran wrote: Yes, syslog-ng is running fine (I'd already configured rc.conf like you say). The problem is that it has a destination set up to pipe to the program ccze, and that pipe doesn't work unless I restart syslog-ng after boot time. I've also tried moving the script into /etc/

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Ashley Moran
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: The requirements like BEFORE: SERVERS are not honoured by scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Try placing the script in /etc/rc.d calling it say syslogng (i.e. without the .sh). The BEFORE: doesn't bother me too much. I don't care enormously if I lose a bit of logging. I ju

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ashley Moran wrote: I have a 5.4-STABLE server that I've reconfigured to use syslog-ng instead of syslogd. It collects logs from all our servers and sorts them into per-host folders. Our network admin showed me his gentoo machine earlier which uses ccze to colour log files as they scroll up

Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Ashley Moran
I have a 5.4-STABLE server that I've reconfigured to use syslog-ng instead of syslogd. It collects logs from all our servers and sorts them into per-host folders. Our network admin showed me his gentoo machine earlier which uses ccze to colour log files as they scroll up the screen. He wante