* Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.com> [010830 08:54]:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a strange problem with syslog and Solaris 7, and I've run
> out of ideas about what might be wrong.
>
> I configure postgres with --enable-syslog, and everything works fine.
> Configure finds syslog, so that's not a problem. In postgres.conf, I
> have the following:
>
> #
> # Syslog
> #
> #ifdef ENABLE_SYSLOG
> syslog = 2 # range 0-2
> syslog_facility = 'LOCAL1'
> syslog_ident = 'postgres'
> #endif
>
> And, in /etc/syslog.conf, I have
>
> #Postgres logging
>
> local1.* /opt/OXRS/logs/postgres/pg.log
>
> (yes, the whitespace is tabs).
>
> Now, the strange thing is that nothing ever seems to go to the syslog
> daemon. If I start up syslogd with -d, it never shows anything
> coming from postgres, even though I have logging levels turned up.
> If I redirect the log to both console and logfile, I get lots of
> noise on the console, bit nothing in the file, so I know it's not
> from want of data.
>
> Any suggestion is much appreciated, because I'm stumped. I've never
> seen anything like this before.
Any chance syslogd is running up against a file limit of some kind to
get the file open?
And the file exists and has the correct permissions?
I do know the syslog code works, I use it heavily on my
UnixWare/ÓpenUNIX and FreeBSD boxen.
>
> Thanks,
> A
>
>
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