Re: sendsyslog failure logging

2015-01-06 Thread Theo de Raadt
>On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 07:02:47PM +0100, Alexander Bluhm wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 07:16:19PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: >> > >On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Alexander Bluhm >> > >wrote: >> > >> My goal is to make logging via syslog reliable. At least I want >> > >> to see when a mes

Re: sendsyslog failure logging

2015-01-05 Thread Claudio Jeker
On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 07:02:47PM +0100, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 07:16:19PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > >On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Alexander Bluhm > > >wrote: > > >> My goal is to make logging via syslog reliable. At least I want > > >> to see when a message g

Re: sendsyslog failure logging

2015-01-05 Thread Alexander Bluhm
On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 07:16:19PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Alexander Bluhm > >wrote: > >> My goal is to make logging via syslog reliable. At least I want > >> to see when a message gets lost. > >> > >> So my idea is to write a kernel log message if sendsysl

Re: sendsyslog failure logging

2015-01-04 Thread Theo de Raadt
>On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Alexander Bluhm >wrote: >> My goal is to make logging via syslog reliable. At least I want >> to see when a message gets lost. >> >> So my idea is to write a kernel log message if sendsyslog(2) cannot >> deliver a message. Then you see the problem on the console

Re: sendsyslog failure logging

2015-01-04 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > My goal is to make logging via syslog reliable. At least I want > to see when a message gets lost. > > So my idea is to write a kernel log message if sendsyslog(2) cannot > deliver a message. Then you see the problem on the console and in

sendsyslog failure logging

2015-01-03 Thread Alexander Bluhm
Hi, My goal is to make logging via syslog reliable. At least I want to see when a message gets lost. So my idea is to write a kernel log message if sendsyslog(2) cannot deliver a message. Then you see the problem on the console and in the dmesg buffer. If syslogd comes back later, you will als