SYSLOG

[Paul Mielke]

In article <10319 at alice.UUCP>, andrew at alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume) writes:
> 
> 
> has anyone running 3.2 (or 3.2.1) persuaded the syslog system to
> log disk errors? despite the obvious and default conf file,
> nothing gets logged but some whining by some networking daemons.
> i wrote a user program to log stuff; it worked.

In 3.2 and earlier software, the only stuff that goes into the syslog is
from user level programs that call syslog(3).  In a subsequent system
release, all kernel printfs (which will include error messages from disk
drivers) will also go to the syslogd.

Paul Mielke                  paulm at sgi.com
Advanced Systems Division    (415) 962-3447
Silicon Graphics, Inc.