vmps-devel

[OpenVMPS-devel] Log to seperate file

[Ray H <ra...@me...>]

Hello all, I hope this has been done before but I want to log all vmps
data that currently logs to /var/log/messages to a different file, say
/var/log/vmps.log. I'm running RHEL4 default syslog and latest version of
openvmps.

V/r,
Ray H.

Re: [OpenVMPS-devel] Log to seperate file

[Sean B. <se...@bo...>]

I'd suggest tweaking openvmps to log to 'local7' or some unused syslog
level, and then adapting /etc/syslog.conf to log local7.* to a separate
file.

Sean

P.S. As an openvmps user please also consider visiting  freenac.net, you may
be interested in the OpenVMPS +mysqlbackend + GUI that we have built.



> Hello all, I hope this has been done before but I want to log all vmps
> data that currently logs to /var/log/messages to a different file, say
> /var/log/vmps.log. I'm running RHEL4 default syslog and 
> latest version of
> openvmps.
> 
> V/r,
> Ray H.

Re: [OpenVMPS-devel] Log to seperate file

[Ray H <ra...@me...>]

Hello Sean, thank you for the fast response. I see how and where to set
logging level when the vmpsd is started, -l. What I do not understand is
how to specify what syslog facility to specify? Would you be able to help
in that regard? Is it a setting in vmpsd, syslog or both?

My syslog.conf is as follows;

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                /var/log/messages
authpriv.*                                              /var/log/secure
mail.*                                                  -/var/log/maillog
cron.*                                                  /var/log/cron
*.emerg                                                 *
uucp,news.crit                                          /var/log/spooler
local7.*                                                /var/log/boot.log

We start vmpsd by the absolute path /usr/local/bin/vmpsd, no extra options
and it knows where the db file is and I believe the logging level is at
informational in /var/log/messages. According to the man page it says you
must specify the db file but we do not. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

V/r,
Ray H.

>
> I'd suggest tweaking openvmps to log to 'local7' or some unused syslog
> level, and then adapting /etc/syslog.conf to log local7.* to a separate
> file.
>
> Sean
>
> P.S. As an openvmps user please also consider visiting  freenac.net, you
> may
> be interested in the OpenVMPS +mysqlbackend + GUI that we have built.
>
>
>
>> Hello all, I hope this has been done before but I want to log all vmps
>> data that currently logs to /var/log/messages to a different file, say
>> /var/log/vmps.log. I'm running RHEL4 default syslog and
>> latest version of
>> openvmps.
>>
>> V/r,
>> Ray H.
>

Re: [OpenVMPS-devel] Log to seperate file

[Marc B. <mwb...@gm...>]

 AFAIK you'll need to modify the source to change the facility vmpsd logs
to, I believe it is in log.c or log.h (I would check, but I don't have the
source available to me at the moment).  I think this would be a good thing
to have configurable via either command line or config file.

-Marc

On 11/29/06, Ray H <ra...@me...> wrote:
>
> Hello Sean, thank you for the fast response. I see how and where to set
> logging level when the vmpsd is started, -l. What I do not understand is
> how to specify what syslog facility to specify? Would you be able to help
> in that regard? Is it a setting in vmpsd, syslog or both?
>
> My syslog.conf is as follows;
>
> *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                /var/log/messages
> authpriv.*                                              /var/log/secure
> mail.*                                                  -/var/log/maillog
> cron.*                                                  /var/log/cron
> *.emerg                                                 *
> uucp,news.crit                                          /var/log/spooler
> local7.*                                                /var/log/boot.log
>
> We start vmpsd by the absolute path /usr/local/bin/vmpsd, no extra options
> and it knows where the db file is and I believe the logging level is at
> informational in /var/log/messages. According to the man page it says you
> must specify the db file but we do not. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> V/r,
> Ray H.
>
> >
> > I'd suggest tweaking openvmps to log to 'local7' or some unused syslog
> > level, and then adapting /etc/syslog.conf to log local7.* to a separate
> > file.
> >
> > Sean
> >
> > P.S. As an openvmps user please also consider visiting  freenac.net, you
> > may
> > be interested in the OpenVMPS +mysqlbackend + GUI that we have built.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Hello all, I hope this has been done before but I want to log all vmps
> >> data that currently logs to /var/log/messages to a different file, say
> >> /var/log/vmps.log. I'm running RHEL4 default syslog and
> >> latest version of
> >> openvmps.
> >>
> >> V/r,
> >> Ray H.
> >
>
>
>
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Re: [OpenVMPS-devel] Log to seperate file

[Sean B. <se...@bo...>]

 
>  What I do not 
> understand is
> how to specify what syslog facility to specify? Would you be 
> able to help
> in that regard? Is it a setting in vmpsd, syslog or both?

in log.c there is line that calls openlog with "LOG_LOCAL6",
so change this to the facility you want and recompile

> 
> My syslog.conf is as follows;

to get facility local6 in syslog.conf:
local6.*			/var/log/openvmps.log

(you must have TABS between the two fields).
Then restart syslog.

Sean