[syslog-ng]Strange behaviour with kernel log

[Nate Campi]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:50:42PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > 
> > I've downloaded latest syslog-ng and installed it on my box (Mandrake 9.0).
> > # logger -p kern.info "test kern.info 1"
> > 
> > Then I checked kern.log and saw nothing. The "test kern.info 1" was in
> > user.log !
> > 
> > Can someone explain me this strange behaviour ?
> 
> logger refuses to log with facility == LOG_KERN

I usually send logs with netcat (UDP or TCP, depending on what's
listening in that particular syslog-ng instance) over the network to
simulate kernel messages. You could even temporarily open up a socket on
127.0.0.1 for this purpose during investigation if you don't already
have a network source.
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