syslog-ng, metalog, and sysklogd

djclue917 · 2006-12-13 06:24:00

Do Metalog and sysklogd store kernel messages in /var/log/kernel.log? Or is it just syslog-ng?

T-Dawg · 2006-12-13 10:30:40

I can vouche for metalog:

tyler@tungsten ~ $ sudo ls /var/log/kernel/
current                  log-2006-12-09-14:09:56  log-2006-12-12-01:24:08
log-2006-12-05-14:29:39  log-2006-12-10-20:14:57  log-2006-12-13-02:56:19

I like this one because it automatically rotates your logs without the help of logrotate. Useful for laptop machines that don't get enough uptime to run the logrotate script from cron. Its also more configureable and logical structures than syslog-ng.

djclue917 · 2006-12-13 11:29:53

Oh... So Metalog doesn't store logs in /var/log/messages.log?

byte · 2006-12-13 19:19:26

All of those three store kernel messages where you tell them to.

djclue917 · 2006-12-14 04:28:35

byte wrote:

All of those three store kernel messages where you tell them to.

Well yes you are right... But I'm interested with the default configuration of each logger.

byte · 2006-12-15 02:03:29

sysklogd default config
metalog default config
syslog-ng default config

So to answer your original question, no, especially metalog differs by creating directories for each and everything.

djclue917 · 2006-12-20 12:20:46

byte wrote:

sysklogd default config
metalog default config
syslog-ng default config
So to answer your original question, no, especially metalog differs by creating directories for each and everything.

Nice! Now I can finally complete my patch for Firestarter. You see, the kernel llog paths are hard-coded into the program and it simply tries to guess which log file to use. In short, the algo & paths it checks for aren't fine tuned for Arch.

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#1 2006-12-13 06:24:00

syslog-ng, metalog, and sysklogd

#2 2006-12-13 10:30:40

Re: syslog-ng, metalog, and sysklogd

#3 2006-12-13 11:29:53

Re: syslog-ng, metalog, and sysklogd

#4 2006-12-13 19:19:26

Re: syslog-ng, metalog, and sysklogd

#5 2006-12-14 04:28:35

Re: syslog-ng, metalog, and sysklogd

#6 2006-12-15 02:03:29

Re: syslog-ng, metalog, and sysklogd

#7 2006-12-20 12:20:46

Re: syslog-ng, metalog, and sysklogd

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