Martin, Thank you! Knowing that it works, and what facility it is using, made me go back in and tinker, and I discovered I had a pretty serious syslogd (syslog-ng, actually) configuration error that affected more than Bacula. That's what I get for using a delivered configuration file instead of carefully reviewing it first. Thanks again.
--Gary -----Original Message----- From: Martin Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:58 AM To: Gary Kopp Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Messages resource and syslog >>>>> On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:32:32 -0700, "Gary Kopp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Gary> Before I assume no replies so far means that syslog support is broken or Gary> just plain not usable, please allow me to post my query a second time in Gary> hopes that a new set of eyes, with experience with Bacula and syslog, Gary> will see it... Gary> Can anyone provide a sample of a messages resource destination Gary> specification using "syslog" that they know works? According to the Gary> Bacula doc, the syntax is supposed to be Gary> <destination> = <address> = <message-type1>, <message-type2>, .... Gary> where I can set "destination" to "syslog". The doc goes on to say the Gary> value of "address" will be ignored. The director's parser complains Gary> about an unknown message type if I follow this syntax, seemingly no Gary> matter what I put in for "address". What I can get the parser to accept Gary> is: Gary> syslog = <message-type1>, <message-type2>, ... Gary> But then I can't find anything in any of my Linux logs. The Bacula doc Gary> says its messages will be logged to the LOG_ERR facility. LOG_ERR is Gary> not a facility, it's a priority, AFAIK. LOG_ERR isn't actually a Linux Gary> syslog term, it's, I believe, a literal used in some logging support Gary> programming packages. Gary> So, I really have three questions: Gary> 1) Does the syslog destination really work for Bacula messages? Yes. Gary> 2) What facility and priority are actually being used for the syslog Gary> messages that are generated? The facility is daemon and the priority is err. Gary> 3) What is the correct syntax for a syslog destination in the messages Gary> resource? With CVS HEAD (1.39.3 17Dec05), I added syslog = all, !skipped, !saved to my director's messages resource and the messages from a backup were printed by dmesg -a and were also in /var/log/messages. This was FreeBSD 4.9 with *.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none /var/log/messages in syslog.conf. It might be different on Linux. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
