syslogd -m and /etc/rc

[Jan Johansson]

Hello!

There seems to be a little glitch in the /etc/rc* files (or maybe
somewhere else).

After reboot..

# grep syslog /etc/rc.conf
syslogd_flags="-m 20" #add more fla....
# ps -ax | grep syslog
29536 ?? Ss 0:00.06 syslogd -m 20
23256 p0 S+ 0:00.01 grep syslog
#

This does not give me -- MARK -- messages..

# kill 29536
# ps -ax | grep syslog
27483 p0 P+ 0:00.00 grep syslog
# syslogd -m 20
# ps -ax | grep syslog
27237 ?? Ss 0:00.01 syslogd -m 20
#

Now I get -- MARK -- messages..

This has been tested on two machines with 2.6 post release snapshots
(one is a week old).

Also I would suggest a change in the man page for syslogd

-m mark_interval
Tell syslogd to generate mark messages at mark_interval minutes.

//Jan J

[Jan Johansson]

Well well..

Send this message along and don't you think the stupid MARK messages
pops up after a couple of minutes. Have been testing for days but I
guess I am not a good bug finder..

The hickup seems to be the /etc/syslog.conf

*.debug @loghost
mark.info @loghost

Works...

*.debug;mark.info @loghost

Does not work on OpenBSD but on a couple of different versions of Sun
OS.

Sorry for wasting your time,

Jan J