Re: Fedora syslog problem

["Kirk A. Turner-Rustin" <ktrustin@owu.edu>]

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Sundaram Ramasamy wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I want to enable the openldap debug message in fedora Linux. I have
> added local4.* in syslog.conf file, but still I am not getting log
> message in the /var/log/message file.
> 
> I tried in Redhat 9.0 same thing is working, any help to enable the
> logging.

RedHat forces the debug output to daemon instead of local4. Edit
/etc/rc.d/init.d/ldap to remove '-l daemon' from the slapd command line,
or use daemon.* instead of local4.* in syslog.conf. (Thanks to Frank
Swasey for posting the answer to this problem some months ago.)

> 
> 
> I am using following package 
> 
> openldap-servers-2.1.22-8
> openldap-2.1.22-8
> openldap-clients-2.1.22-8
> openldap-devel-2.1.22-8
> 
> 
> # grep logle /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
> loglevel 256
> 
> 
> # tail -3 /etc/syslog.conf
> # Save boot messages also to boot.log
> local7.*
> /var/log/boot.log
> local4.*
> /var/log/messages
> 
> 

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Kirk Turner-Rustin
Information Systems
Ohio Wesleyan University
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