Bug 9079 – metalog 0.6-r10 does not write to console using "/usr/sbin/consolelog.sh"

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Stefano Peluchetti 2002-10-13 13:11:42 UTC]

From my metalog configuration file:
# Hint: you can change the device to which
#       should be logged in /usr/sbin/consolelog.sh
#

#console logging :
#
  facility = "*"
  command = "/usr/sbin/consolelog.sh"

I also edited it to write to /dev/vc/10
It does not print anything on this consolle.

Thanks

[Comment 1 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-01-21 23:22:00 UTC]

sorry -- i havent tried this.

do you have a fix for this?  if not i might not get to it
in a while because i dont use it...

[Comment 2 Donny Davies (RETIRED) 2003-02-15 11:55:41 UTC]

timed out; please re-assign

[Comment 3 Wouter Deconinck 2003-03-30 05:25:28 UTC]

My fix: there should be "minimum = 6" (or whatever you wish), because when processing that directive, it still uses the "minimum = 1" for the entry right above (which only logs the critical errors).
Maybe this could be added in the metalog.conf which goes with the package?

[Comment 4 Nils Ohlmeier 2003-04-16 13:52:15 UTC]

The solution is pretty simple: 
you also have to remove the comment mark # from the line containing 
"console logging:". As you can see from the entrys above this console 
logging each section in the metalog config needs a head or title (or 
wohever you want to call it). 

[Comment 5 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) 2003-04-20 18:53:47 UTC]

I know absolutely nothing about this.  Nils, reading your reply, is the problem 
just a configuration issue, and if so is it on the user's part, or ours?

[Comment 6 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) 2003-06-30 16:15:45 UTC]

Marking as NEEDINFO since my last question is still outstanding.

[Comment 7 Markus Nigbur (RETIRED) 2003-10-01 05:22:32 UTC]

It is a configuration issue, not anything we can/should do.