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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