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

[Ian Veach]

Awesome.  Thanks Balazs and Nate!  That sounds like it will work 
perfectly (we'll use -n 1, since we aren't on console and they are frame 
buffered anyway), and I'll try it tommorow morning!

ivo


Nate Campi wrote:
> 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
>