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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Anybody have syslogd working?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.085335.28386@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:53:35 GMT
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- lord@hemlock.cray.com (Steve Lord) writes:
- :
- :
- : I have a modified syslogd which can use unix domain sockets as well as
- : internet ones. I have also been working on getting it to read messages
- : produced by the kernel and record those as well by using the syslog
- : system call. It does work (including the kernel messages), but I am not
- : too happy with the implementation - I had to fork a second copy of syslogd
- : to read from the kernel (because I don't think I can detect changes to the
- : kernel log via select).
- :
- : Is there a way of detecting kernel messages via select?
- Find out what is wrong with select...
- sunOS performs logging fo kernal messages using a characher special file
- called /dev/klog...
- :
- : I will clean up the code a little and upload it (tomorrow I hope). No
- : guarantees on the kernel logging part of it, it does seem to work, but I
- : haven't tried stressing it.
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