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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2006 11:23:08 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        des@des.no, phk@phk.freebsd.dk, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <447C8D8C.1020808@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060529.112935.570083129.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <1471.1148836757@critter.freebsd.dk>	<20060528.113724.1655407378.imp@bsdimp.com>	<86pshx85tu.fsf@xps.des.no> <20060529.112935.570083129.imp@bsdimp.com>

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M. Warner Losh wrote:

>In message: <86pshx85tu.fsf@xps.des.no>
>            des@des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
>: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
>: > There's no way to 'connect to syslogd and subscribe to messages' in
>: > the current syslogd.
>: 
>: tail -F /var/log/messages
>  
>

in  -currnet you can listen on any UDP port and have syslog send you stuff.

>That doesn't give you what I described.  What that does is give you
>the messages that syslogd writes to /var/log/messages.  This is a
>subset of the messages sent to syslogd, and doesn't have the severity
>levels, facilities, etc associated with them.  There's no way for one
>to connect to syslogd and dynamically filter the records that are
>displayed.  While adding such a facility wouldn't be that hard, it
>does not exist today.
>
>Warner
>
>  
>



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