Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:02:47 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc newsyslog.conf Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010206120034.98384F-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <77124.981452661@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 22:07:01 PST, Robert Watson wrote: > > > o Introduce automated log rotation for /var/log/console, the > > default syslog target for console messages (when enabled in > > syslog.conf). > > Is this file created by sysinstall? If not, new installs are going to > have a problem, since syslogd won't log to a file unless it already > exists. It is not created by sysinstall, so is not used by default. My understanding is that newsyslog will safely ignore files not present, and syslog.conf has its console log entry commented out. I.e., there is not a "problem" per se. That said, now that we have console logging support, we probably *should* enable it in syslog.conf and sysinstall. You certainly wouldn't want to enable it prior to having a newsyslog.conf entry :-). I don't have sysinstall foo, but if someone with said foo wants to add support there and enable the syslog.conf entry, by all means, feel free. There were some recent bug fixes involving syslogd and the console type, so before MFCing such a change, you'd want to verify that it worked pretty carefully, and that the bugfixes were all MFC'd first. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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