[syslog-ng] Re: syslog-ng && kern.*

[Balazs Scheidler]

> Have you managed to log any kernel messages with syslog-ng?
> I have tried almost anything already. What I have is latest version 
> of syslog-ng and redhat-6.1 klogd running.

I've just checked, and it does write kernel messages to the appropriate
file.

> and on other console..
> [root@cyrex /root]# klogd
> [root@cyrex /root]#
> [root@cyrex /root]# logger -p kern.info somemessage
> and on first console..
> io.c: Preparing fd 4 for reading
> io.c: Preparing fd 5 for writing
> io.c: Preparing fd 6 for writing
> io.c: Preparing fd 7 for writing
> io.c: Preparing fd 8 for writing
> io.c: Preparing fd 9 for writing
> Read EOF on fd 4.
> Marking fd 4 for closing.
> Closing fd 4.
> Garbage collecting while idle...
> Objects alive: 160, garbage collected: 5
> 
> .. and surprise:
> [root@cyrex syslog-ng-1.4.3]# tail /var/log/syslog -n 1
> Apr 28 11:05:27 cyrex tontsa: somemessage
> [root@cyrex syslog-ng-1.4.3]# tail /var/log/kern.log -n 1
> 
> Shows up nothing. Any ideas? I'm almost willing to try anything :). 
> Normal syslog kills my machine when I'm running syslog intensive 
> jobs and printk() logging isn't nice to look when klogd -f /somefile is run.

hmm.. try an strace dump of klogd, and check the priority value it sends to
syslog-ng.

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