On Oct 12 10:40, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Oct 11 16:51, Jaime Saiz Santos wrote: > > Hi. > > I have two questions regarding syslog & logger in inetutils package: > > > > > > 1. logger command seems to ignore -p option: it behaves as if > > "user.notice" were put always. > > > > For instance: > > > > $ cat /etc/syslog.conf > > local3.* /var/log/local3 > > user.notice /var/log/user > > > > $ net stop syslogd > > $ net start syslogd > > $ logger -p local3.info Some message > > > > It writes the message in /var/log/user, instead of in /var/log/local3. > > Am I doing something wrong? > > Nope. Cygwin is doing something wrong. Cygwin's syslog function fails > to send the facility and priority word to syslogd. Fixed in CVS. > > > 2. A blank space is written between the tag and the colon in the output > > message. > > > > For instance: > > > > Oct 11 16:45:00 mymachine mytag : Some text instead of: > > Oct 11 16:45:00 mymachine mytag: Some text > > > > Is it standard? > > No, it's not. I removed the extra spaces from the output in CVS.
...and both changes are available in the 11-Oct-2005 snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/