Questions tagged [syslogd]
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Mac ASL: Unable to see my application's log messages
I have just added ASL logging support to my application (a compiled binary) but I cannot see any log entries using Console.app. I am logging with facility 'com.mydomain.myapp' (that's not the actual ...
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MacOS - How to change syslogd's log level for a specific process/program?
I am new to MacOS and I would like to get a better of view of what's going on with a system process when my computer is starting up. I can see in the log that a process is changing settings, but the ...
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asl.conf doesn't take an effect on my enviroment OS X Yosemite
I'm trying to stop certain application's annoying logging, with no success so far. What I did is those things explained like in this question:
How to disable/ set logging level /preferences PER Mac ...
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External drive causes spotlight and indexing errors
I'm having issues with an external drive. My computer is a new Macbook Air running Lion. I had an external drive hooked up today, including a TM backup, to get some files. I'm seeing the following ...
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rsyslogd: How to prevent logging in the /var/kern.log file and redirecting to another file?
I am trying to redirect iptables log to another file.
Based upon my reading on the net, I did the following:
In my iptables rule, I have rules like:
iptables -A INPUT -s ... -j LOG --log-prefix "...
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Millisecond precision in syslogd on OS X
When I log messages to syslog in OS X (10.10.1), it truncates the timestamp to the second. If I log to a file, for example, I am able to capture milliseconds. Milliseconds matter when logs are coming ...
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Syslogd: hardware error
The machine has been sending these messages to the terminal, paired with beeps from the speaker on the motherboard. These messages appear every 5 minutes, sometimes naming CPU2, sometimes CPU3.
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Logging rssh/chroot SFTP users
I'm trying to log activity (uploads, downloads, renames, deletes) for SFTP users.
If I SFTP with a normal user, it logs to /var/log/secure.
If I SFTP with a rssh user, it logs that they connected, but ...
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how to get logs in DD/MM/YYYY format and ipaddress format using rsyslog in ubuntu
Feb 4 10:32:57 master sshd[2070]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 4 10:32:59 master sshd[2070]: Received disconnect from 192.168.0.107: 11: disconnected by user
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Tag incoming syslog messages with source?
I'm running Mac OS X 10.7 server, with syslogd accepting remote syslogs on the standard UDP port. I just spent some time trying to debug a problem where I was getting messages in my log every 10 ...
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Running a remote syslog server
I have a Mac dev machine configured to forward certain syslog entries to a remote syslog host. It's configured to forward them to my Ubuntu server. The Ubuntu server currently has rsyslog installed (...
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How can I run a command when a certain message is dumped to /var/log/messages?
I'm suffering under some bug that makes pulseaudio dump millions of messages in my syslog:
Oct 17 15:58:38 host pulseaudio[3757]: alsa-sink.c: Resume failed, couldn't restore original fragment ...
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Using syslog to monitor stopped services on Win2k
I am using a central syslog server to capture event logs from Windows machines.
I am specifically interested in monitoring Windows services. This works well under XP machines - each time a service ...
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rsyslogd vs auditd? Are they alternatives or complement each other?
I see that both auditd and rsyslogd services are running (on my OpenSuse Leap 15 box). A quick google didn't give a good answer.
Are these services doing the same job? i.e. Could i get rid of one of ...
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Redirecting messages from syslogd
I'm currently using a CentOS 6 cluster which is having some issues on one node that is triggering a syslogd message:
Message from syslogd@node005 at Sep 7 14:23:04 ...
kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received ...
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