Unwanted syslog printing

[Jan Morén]

ons 2004-10-13 klockan 07:15 -0700 skrev Hudson Delbert J Contr 61
CS/SCBN:
> why is the syslog output going to every open terminal?

I have no idea.

> in syslog.conf, one can desginate where output should go?

My syslog.conf is the original one from the ubuntu install. Everything
should be going to logfiles.

Again, I have touched nothing syslog-related directly. I have probably
installed some package, or combination of packages, that in some
indirect way is messing this up.


> point it at /var/log or wherever appropriate instead of std files...
> 
> here is a pointer to a fairly decent syslogd config page...
> 
> http://www.cert.org/security-improvement/implementations/i041.08.html
> 
> hope its helpful.
> 
> ping me back offline if any questions.
> 
> ~piranha
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Jan Morén
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 7:00 AM
> To: ubuntu-users
> Subject: RE: Unwanted syslog printing
> 
> 
> ons 2004-10-13 klockan 06:36 -0700 skrev Hudson Delbert J Contr 61
> CS/SCBN:
> > dt is spot on. they are timestamp entries generated by syslod itself.
> > they are usefull and show thet status of the logger itself.
> 
> They may be useful - but not printing straight over all the terminals;
> also, it freaking beeps the internal speaker every single time.
> 
> 
> > wonder if it might not serve the purpose by shutting down syslod if the
> > machine is 
> > that in-active or when cron rolls these you could have a script ignor them
> > by using 'cat syslog | grep -v "-- MARK --"' > new_syslog and archive it
> > w/out
> > the timestamp. 
> 
> Huh? I don't quite follow you? I don't understand how that would stop
> syslog from printing its stuff onto every open terminal?
> 
> 
> > ~piranha
> >  
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> > [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of doubletwist
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 6:28 AM
> > To: ubuntu-users
> > Subject: Re: Unwanted syslog printing
> > 
> > 
> > janne wrote:
> > 
> > > For some reason, syslog is occasionally printing stuff onto the active
> > > terminal. Every twenty minutes, I get a "localhost -- MARK --" line from
> > > syslog. Postfix, too, was printing some warnings regularily until I got
> > > fed up and stopped the daemon altogether (why is it running at all, btw?
> > > No other "real" server stuff is running by default after all). It goes
> > > without saying that this behavior is getting rather annoying.
> > > 
> > > I sort of suspect it's the xconsole-related lines in /etc/syslog.conf
> > > that are the cause. Is there any good reason to not just comment away
> > > that thing altogether?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > I believe if you put -m 0  after the syslogd line in /etc/init.d it will 
> > stop putting those MARK's. Or you can put -m n  to make the MARK entries 
> > every n minutes. I think they're just there to give an indication that 
> > syslog is still running properly if there is nothing else being logged.
> > 
> > DT
> > 
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Tel. (Japan) 090-3622 8920            Dr. Jan Morén (mr)
                                      Dept. of Cognitive Science
http://lucs.lu.se/people/jan.moren    Lund, Sweden