[3286] in testers
Re: named in sun 8.1 is noisy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jun 23 14:09:15 1997
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship), testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Jun 1997 13:54:18 EDT."
<199706231754.NAA12710@the-light-fantastic.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:08:40 EDT
> > It looks like bind 4.9.3 (which solaris 2.5.1 uses) does an openlog
> > with LOG_CONS. The openlog manpage implies that this only causes it
> > to write to the console if it can't write to syslogd
>
> I believe that actually functions correctly; I see named warning
> messages at boot time which I don't see if I restart named after
> syslogd is running.
I believe that Dan was complaining that the "only" was not being
honored.
> > but that doesn't seem to be what actually happens, because if I tell
> > syslogd to log daemon.* to /var/adm/messages, I get the syslog both
> > in the file and on my console.
>
> I'd have to see what you had in syslog.conf.
I ihave a similar probelm except that I get zephyred the message, and
it appears in my console. I'm using the athenizd syslogd with an
athena default syslog.conf, plus the following line:
*.debug jweiss
Of course another work-around in the fair.tlg.ne case is probably to
beat up on Cygnus to beat up on the right people to fix the
problem. :-)
Jonathon
