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Re: Logger logs as user.notice
On Oct 12 10:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Oct 11 16:51, Jaime Saiz Santos wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I have two questions regarding syslog & logger in inetutils package:
> >
> >
> > 1. logger command seems to ignore -p option: it behaves as if
> > "user.notice" were put always.
> >
> > For instance:
> >
> > $ cat /etc/syslog.conf
> > local3.* /var/log/local3
> > user.notice /var/log/user
> >
> > $ net stop syslogd
> > $ net start syslogd
> > $ logger -p local3.info Some message
> >
> > It writes the message in /var/log/user, instead of in /var/log/local3.
> > Am I doing something wrong?
>
> Nope. Cygwin is doing something wrong. Cygwin's syslog function fails
> to send the facility and priority word to syslogd. Fixed in CVS.
>
> > 2. A blank space is written between the tag and the colon in the output
> > message.
> >
> > For instance:
> >
> > Oct 11 16:45:00 mymachine mytag : Some text instead of:
> > Oct 11 16:45:00 mymachine mytag: Some text
> >
> > Is it standard?
>
> No, it's not. I removed the extra spaces from the output in CVS.
...and both changes are available in the 11-Oct-2005 snapshot from
http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Corinna
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