From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [64.234.241.98]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76EFD4C8007E for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 14:47:30 -0600 (CST) Received: by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 999) id DF824166038B; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:47:29 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=4.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from hermes.chez-thomas.org (hermes_local [192.168.1.101]) by mail.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA1B16602EC; Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:47:29 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <4D55A061.8040901@mlbassoc.com> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:47:29 -0700 From: Gary Thomas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poky Subject: Useless syslogd X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:47:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ... 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? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------