Re: [Ddclient-support] issue with syslog

[wimpunk <wi...@us...>]

Hi,

On 1/31/20 2:32 PM, lenovomi wrote:
> Hi,
> i am trying to use ddclient which is part of the openmediavault distro.
> 
> The issue is that even inside ddclient conf file syslog is enabled
> there are no messages inside syslog related to the ddclient. Why?
> 
> I use ddclient on openwrt and the log is pretty straight forward:
> 
>   134924       : Local IP 'xx' detected on web at 'http://checkip.dyndns.com'
>   134924       : Waiting 600 seconds (Check Interval)
>   135925       : Detect registered/public IP
>   135925       : #> /usr/bin/nslookup phear.dynu.com
>> /var/run/ddns/myddns_ipv4.dat 2>/var/run/ddns/myddns_ipv4.err
>   135925       : Registered IP 'xxx' detected
>   135925  info : Rerun IP check at 2020-01-31 13:59
>   135926       : Detect local IP on 'web'
>   135926       : #> /bin/uclient-fetch -q -O
> /var/run/ddns/myddns_ipv4.dat -Y off 'http://checkip.dyndns.com'
> 2>/var/run/ddns/myddns_ipv4.err
>   135926       : Local IP 'xxx' detected on web at 'http://checkip.dyndns.com'
>   135927       : Waiting 600 seconds (Check Interval)
> 
> Thanks
> 

By default ddclient logs to the daemon facility with priority notice. 
There is a change you syslog configuration is filtering this kind of 
messages.  The messages you show from openwrt doesn't look like ddclient 
messages to me.

You should get a message like this:
Feb  6 15:09:26 pinix ddclient[734]: WARNING:  file 
/var/cache/ddclient/ddclient.cache, line 3: Invalid Value for keyword 
'ip' = ''
Feb  6 15:09:27 pinix ddclient[734]: FAILED:   Could not get freedns 
update URLs from freedns.afraid.org


Kind regards,

Wimpunk.