Hi all.
Bug bin/8865 strikes again?
I have a FreeBSD 4.8 Release machine. After sometime, the logs just
aren't modified, syslogd just doesn't log. The last entry
on /var/log/messages is from may 15.
Could this be caused to use a serial console (-P on /boot.config, no
keyboard attached) to access the machine? There was once a time that
when i Control^D'ed on the serial console and a lot of messages,
obviously threw by syslogd, scrolled by, messages that should be loged
to the console and /var/log/messages.
Some output:
# syslogd -d -ss
off & running....
init
cfline("*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console",
f, "*", "*")
Killed syslogd and commented out the line
"*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console" on
/etc/syslogd.conf, and guess what...
# syslogd -d -ss
**insert explosion of messages from may 15, may 16 and may 17 here!**
So it probably was caused by the serial console :). Doesn't the -P flag
on /boot.config takes care of "telling" the rest of the system that
now
the console is a serial one? Having ttyd1 on /etc/ttys doesn't work for
me, had to use cuaa1 instead, to have a working serial console. Maybe
this cause the bug?
Santos
