Hi Gabor,

I am running a Debian buster in a VBox guest.

Can you check which terminals are the user 'thanos' logged in?

root@debian10st:/home/thanos# w thanos
09:15:47 up 22:00, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
thanos ttyS0 - Mon20 8:27 0.05s 0.04s -bash
thanos pts/0 10.0.2.2 Mon20 12:54m 0.03s 0.03s -bash
thanos pts/1 10.0.2.2 Mon20 12:50m 0.12s 0.18s sshd: thanos [priv]
thanos pts/2 10.0.2.2 Mon20 1.00s 0.04s 0.20s sshd: thanos [priv]

Here are the serial configurations:

root@debian10st:/home/thanos# stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -a
speed 9600 baud; rows 24; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = <undef>;
discard = <undef>; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr -icrnl ixon ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig -icanon -iexten -echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke -flusho -extproc

root@debian10st:/home/thanos# stty -F /dev/pts/0 -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 50; columns 184; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = <undef>;
discard = <undef>; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr -icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc ixany -imaxbel iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig -icanon iexten -echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke -flusho -extproc

root@debian10st:/home/thanos# stty -F /dev/pts/1 -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 50; columns 184; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V;
discard = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc ixany -imaxbel iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke -flusho -extproc

root@debian10st:/home/thanos# stty -F /dev/pts/2 -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 50; columns 184; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^H; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>; eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V;
discard = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd -cmspar cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc ixany -imaxbel iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke -flusho -extproc

Thanks,

Alex

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:59 AM Gabor Nagy (gnagy) <Gabor.Nagy@oneidentity.com> wrote:

Hi Alex!

I've checked your attachments and I see that the messages are sent to pseudo-terminals and the serial port too:
[2020-10-23T16:40:20.647481] Posting message to user terminal; user='thanos', line='/dev/ttyS0'
[2020-10-23T16:40:20.647518] Posting message to user terminal; user='thanos', line='/dev/pts/0'

[2020-10-23T16:40:20.647530] Posting message to user terminal; user='thanos', line='/dev/pts/1'
[2020-10-23T16:40:20.647541] Posting message to user terminal; user='thanos', line='/dev/pts/2'

Can you check which terminals are the user 'thanos' logged in?

E.g. use the following command on the command line:
$w thanos

If you don't see a tty with ssh login, that can explain it.

About the serial port, maybe it's misconfigured.
Syslog-ng uses simple open/write calls on the device files , e.g. /dev/ttyS0. Can you try out if you can write in the /dev/ttyS0 file with a simple "echo test" command, please?

Can you tell us a bit more about your host and how did you set up the serial port?

Regards,

Gabor

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Hi,

I am trying to use usertty(*) to send log all messages with severity equal or higher than critical to every user logged.

But I am not getting any messages in serial port or ssh.

I am sending the configurations and the debug log in attachment.

Can you help me to understand what is happening?

Thanks in advance,

Alex

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