[syslog-ng]syslog-ng under Solaris 5.6

[Ryan Moon]

I've seen this problem before. The messages are coming from the Solaris
kernel ring buffer via /dev/log, if you run dmesg you'll see the same
messages. I could not find a way to clear the kernel buffer. The only way
I've found to filter them is to exclude kern.info from the destination,
with a filter like this.

# Exclude any kern.info alerts
filter f_no_kern_info {
  not (facility(kern) and level(info));
};

-Ryan

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Martynas Buozis wrote:

| I have syslog-ng 1.6.0rc3 compiled with gcc 2.95.2. Every time I stop/start
| syslog-ng or send HUP to daemon I get logged by syslog-ng (but not with
| native for OS syslogd) same old messages (kernel  facility) that comes since
| last system boot. Same messages I see when issue dmesg command. This is an
| example for first lines that comes out in logged messaged file :
|
| Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev cpu0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 0 impl 0x11 ver
| 0x20 clock 296 MHz)
| Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev cpu1: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 1 impl 0x11 ver
| 0x20 clock 296 MHz)
| Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev SunOS Release 5.6 Version Generic_105181-33
| [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
| Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev Copyright (c) 1983-1997, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
| Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev mem = 1048576K (0x40000000)
| Jul 24 19:18:45 local@dev avail mem = 1039056896
|
| This behavious is same on all Solaris 5.6 machines, while no problems with
| Solaris 7 and 8 (same binary). Does anyone know how to get rid of these
| messages after HUP ?