From: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
To: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
Cc: Poky <poky@lists.pokylinux.org>
Subject: Re: Useless syslogd
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:50:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297461009.3188.4.camel@elmorro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D55A061.8040901@mlbassoc.com>
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 12:47 -0800, Gary Thomas wrote:
> ... at least out of the box.
>
> It seems that syslog is configured to store its messages in
> a buffer (memory only?) by default:
>
> $ cat meta/recipes-core/busybox/files/syslog.conf
> DESTINATION="buffer" # log destinations (buffer file remote)
> ...
>
> This doesn't seem very useful to me. I know I can override this
> in my platform recipes, but I was just wondering what's the
> rationale? Would it not make more sense to chose DESTINATION="file"?
> Otherwise, where do the messages go? How can I see them?
>
I think 'logread' is hooked up to read from the buffer, but it seems to
be broken at the moment...
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-11 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-11 20:47 Useless syslogd Gary Thomas
2011-02-11 21:50 ` Tom Zanussi [this message]
2011-02-11 22:26 ` Gary Thomas
2011-02-11 22:27 ` Chris Larson
2011-02-11 22:33 ` Gary Thomas
2011-02-14 17:04 ` Darren Hart
2011-02-14 17:19 ` Gary Thomas
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