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Date:      Thu, 02 Oct 1997 19:56:45 +0400
From:      "Alexander B. Povolotsky" <tarkhil@mgt.msk.ru>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Syslogd not writing time marks
Message-ID:  <199710021556.TAA29310@asteroid.mgt.msk.ru>

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Hello!

I'm trying to set syslogd's marks, but so far it doesn't work. I've put
syslog.info      /var/log/alive
into syslog.conf, restarted syslogd... and nothing appears.

Debug output yields:

gate:/etc 206_> sudo syslogd -m 1 -d
off & running....
init
cfline("syslog.*                                @asteroid", f, "*")
cfline("syslog.*                                /var/log/alive", f, "*")
[...skip...]
X X X X X 8 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FORW: asteroid
X X X X X 8 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /var/log/alive
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 X FORW: asteroid
7 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 X CONSOLE: /dev/console
7 5 2 5 5 5 6 3 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 X FILE: /var/log/messages
X X 6 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /var/log/maillog
X X X X X X 6 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /var/log/lpd-errs
X X X X X X X X X 8 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE: /var/cron/log
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 X USERS: root, 
X X X X X X X 3 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X USERS: root, 
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 X USERS: root, 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X WALL: 
8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 X FILE: /var/log/slip.log (startslip)
8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 X FILE: /var/log/ppp.log (ppp)
logmsg: pri 56, flags 4, from gate, msg syslogd: restart
Logging to FORW asteroid
Logging to FILE /var/log/alive
syslogd: restarted
readfds = 0x70
readfds = 0x70
logmsg: pri 6, flags c, from gate, msg -- MARK --
readfds = 0x70

So syslogd GETS marks, but doesn't output it anywhere...

Here is some info on my computer:

gate:/etc 210_> uname -a
FreeBSD gate.mgt.msk.ru 2.2-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 23 09:26:43 MSD 1997     tarkhil@asteroid.mgt.msk.ru:/net/unix/FreeBSD/src/sys/compile/GATE  i386

What could I do wrong?

Alex.



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