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Your new custom kernel (and modules) are now installed. Now you need to choose |
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Your new custom kernel (and modules) are now installed. Now you need to choose |
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a system logger that you would like to install. We offer sysklogd, which is |
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a system logger that you would like to install. We offer sysklogd, which is |
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the traditional set of system logging daemons. We also have msyslog and |
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the traditional set of system logging daemons. We also have msyslog and |
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syslog-ng as well as metalog. Power users seem to gravitate away from |
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syslog-ng as well as metalog. If in doubt, you may want to try syslog-ng, |
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sysklogd (not very good performance) and towards the newer alternatives. |
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since it is very flexible and feature-rich. To merge your logger of choice, |
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If in doubt, you may want to try metalog, since it seems to be quite popular. |
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type <e>one</e> of the next four command sets: |
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<pre caption="Emerging System Logger of Choice"> |
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# <i>rc-update add msyslog default</i> |
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# <i>rc-update add msyslog default</i> |
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Metalog flushes output to the disk in blocks, so messages aren't immediately |
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recorded into the system logs. If you are trying to debug a daemon, this |
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performance-enhancing behavior is less than helpful. When your Gentoo Linux |
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system is up and running, you can send metalog a USR1 signal to temporarily |
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turn off this message buffering (meaning that <c>tail -f |
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<path>/var/log/everything/current</path></c> will now work in real time, as |
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expected) and a USR2 signal to turn buffering back on again. If you want to |
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disable buffering permanently, you can change METALOG_OPTS="-B" to |
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<codenote>To turn the buffering back on:</codenote> |
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Now, you may optionally choose a cron package that you would like to use. |
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Right now, we offer dcron, fcron and vcron. If you do not know which one to |
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Right now, we offer dcron, fcron and vcron. If you do not know which one to |
