On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 08:26 -0700, Ian Veach wrote:
We had a weird problem last week when trying to roll in syslog-ng 2.0.2 over syslogd on SLES 9.3 running on IBM pSeries (PPC). Sorry this is not directly syslog-ng (or is it?), but I'm hoping that someone on this list was in a similar situation or can shed some light.
I did what I could tell was the right thing, which was to disable klogd (and syslogd) before using syslog-ng, and my source looks something like this: file ("/proc/kmsg" log_prefix("kernel: ")); unix-stream ("/dev/log" max-connections(70));
When in place, syslog-ng seems to perform fine - it seemed to pick up all facilities and levels per initial testing. However, the machine then promptly hung. Or, rather, I found that all susefirewall packet messages (kernel, SFW2)) started going to console, in addition to file. I don't have any console destinations per se since these are headless, so I don't know exactly why messages would go to console when they should be going through /proc/kmsg (and thus syslog-ng), correct?
set the kernel's console log level. this is done by klogd but not syslog-ng automatically. something like "dmesg -n4" should help. -- Bazsi