[CS-FSLUG] Strange log messages

[Tim Young]

Many of the defaults for the program are actually distro dependent.  For example,
one of the defaults that I detest is that Fedora Core 1 & 2 (have not tested 3) has
a default of logging certain kernel logs to the console.  If you install a firewall
that has good logging, suddenly the console is bombarded with massive logging.
Makes the console nearly impossible to use.  (Yuck).

The reason I asked what distro was because Fedora (up until FC2) does not have that
as the default.  I am fully aware that someone who is used to Fedora may be totally
clueless about the rest of the world's defaults.  RedHat and Fedora have a lot of
odd settings that separate them from the rest of the world.  So much of my knowledge
does not apply to other distros.

    - Tim Young

Josiah Ritchie wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 10:32 -0600, Tim Young wrote:
> > Jerry, Now I am very curious.  (I had never run into this before)  Was this a
> > clean install, or when did the "marking" start?  Mainly I am trying to figure
> > out where and how it happened so I can remember it better if someone ever asks
> > me about it.  What distro do you use?
> >
> >     - Tim Young
>
> I'm not Jerry, but I seem to remember it having more to do with
> syslogger program. I'm using syslog-ng now but when I ran into it I was
> probably using sysklogd. Here is a man page for you.
> http://www.rt.com/man/syslogd.8.html
>
> I'm betting it was either default for the program or a default Gentoo
> config that I noticed one day in my logs. Seems like it could be a handy
> feature for reading logs.
>
> JSR/
>
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