[syslog-ng] syslog-ng + klogd + susefirewall on power5/suse issues

[Nate Campi]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 05:56:23PM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > 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.

Now documented in the FAQ:

 http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html#klogd

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