Trying to link logs to TTY12

jmj99385 · 04-13-2006, 12:26 PM

Here's my issue.

I would like to be able to switch over to tty12 and see the system activity logs scrolling down the page. Problem is, I don't know where to start!

If you've done it before, I would appreciate any advice you might have. Thank you!

anon237 · 04-13-2006, 12:34 PM

Hi,

You need to add/change a line in your /etc/syslog.conf

kern.warn;*.err /dev/tty12

This will print kernel warnings (and more severe) and all errors (and more severe) to /dev/tty12 You can change what you want to print by changing facility and level.

man syslog.conf for details.

You do need to restart syslogd after changing /etc/syslog.conf

Hope this helps.

jmj99385 · 04-13-2006, 02:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by druuna

Hi,

You need to add/change a line in your /etc/syslog.conf

kern.warn;*.err /dev/tty12

This will print kernel warnings (and more severe) and all errors (and more severe) to /dev/tty12 You can change what you want to print by changing facility and level.

man syslog.conf for details.

You do need to restart syslogd after changing /etc/syslog.conf

Hope this helps.

It helps a great deal! Thank you very much Druuna! I'm actually going to use this on my bosses' new Slack desktop. Now for the office server, is it possible to have all information go to tty12? Like all the apache logs, FreeRadius, clamav and such?

anon237 · 04-13-2006, 02:50 PM

Hi again,

Not all programs use syslogd for the output generated. Some do have that possibility, but the default is otherwise, others 'only' have their own log facility.

I know apache can use syslogd (at least 2.0 can), don't know if the others you mention can. Take a look at the documentation, man pages and the net.

Do watch out that you don't log everything to a tty, it could case slowness. Something like *.* /dev/tty12 would be overkill. All, including debug(!!), messages generated will be send to tty12.

Hope this helps.