From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 15 18:45:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA12132 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:45:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (root@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA12127 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id SAA08522; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:44:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: syslog and ntpdate Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm cleaning up my act, security-wise, here. Once upon a time, I logged in to the console as root and left the session logged in as a 'console log'. This is a secure office, so that was reasonably safe... but bad form, of course. I then then cleaned up my act and changed syslog.conf so that the items of interest get logged directly to the console and all is well. Or almost. Oddly, I can no longer get info reports from ntpdate (run with cron every 2 hours), though I used to. My syslog.conf is now: ---- /etc/syslog.conf *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.notice;kern.debug;lpr,auth.info;mail.crit /var/log/messages mail.info /var/log/maillog lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs cron.* /var/cron/log *.err root *.notice;auth.debug root *.alert root *.emerg * *.notice;*.alert;auth.debug;*.alert /dev/console ---- so I -assumed- that the console should get all the log messages that root used to (except for .err messages)... but the time adjustments don't show. I also tried adding: !ntpdate.* /dev/console Which seemed to correspond to the program usage in syslog.conf, but it made no difference. What did I do wrong? Puzzled... -Dave