SPUG: /var/log/messages
Mikel Tidwell
dragon at dreamhaven.net
Thu May 30 18:38:53 CDT 2002
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Colin Meyer wrote:
-> Remember me? ;-)
Yup. Seen you on the list... I guess I've just never thought to write ^^;
We can catch up in another email ;>
-> There is a (POSIX?) C api for emitting syslog messages. There is a Perl
-> module, part of the standard distro, for doing this from Perl programs.
-> See: perldoc Sys::Syslog
I happened to find this after sending my message, but haven't had any luck
actually getting a message to appear in messages. This is my very basic
testing script so far. (Since writing to messages was first, that's all I
have):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Sys::Syslog qw(:DEFAULT setlogsock);
setlogsock('inet');
openlog('mysqlcheck.pl','cons,pid','user');
syslog('debug', 'I like testing.');
closelog();
----- Here's /etc/syslog.conf (which I didn't know about, thanks :) ------
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.* /dev/console
# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages
debug.* /var/log/messages
# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.* /var/log/secure
# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.* /var/log/maillog
# Log cron stuff
cron.* /var/log/cron
# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg *
# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.* /var/log/boot.log
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I'm sure I'm missing something simple... please tell me what it is. ;>
Meanwhile I'm going for a little walk.. this project frustrates me :P
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