[syslog-ng]syslog-ng 1.4.x troubles : 2nd post
Nate Campi
nate@campin.net
Thu, 1 Aug 2002 08:44:59 -0700
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:30:00AM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
>
> Nate, can you please add this question to the FAQ? As I see there's
> something related, but it doesn't emphasize that klogd must not be running
> while syslog-ng fetches messages:
>
> "
> o
>
> I want to replace syslogd *and* klogd on my Linux box with syslog-ng.
>
> Use a source line like this in your conf file to read kernel messages, too.
>
> source src { pipe("/proc/kmsg"); unix-stream("/dev/log"); internal(); };
>
> o
> "
>
> maybe a sentence:
>
> Note: do not run klogd and syslog-ng fetching local kernel messages at the
> same time. It may cause syslog-ng to block which makes all logging local
> daemons unusable.
Done.
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