[Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Pascal Terjan at 08/02/13 10:33 did gyre and gimble:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>> 'Twas brillig, and AL13N at 07/02/13 18:40 did gyre and gimble:
>>>> Op donderdag 7 februari 2013 13:34:06 schreef Colin Guthrie:
>>>>> 'Twas brillig, and AL13N at 07/02/13 11:40 did gyre and gimble:
>>>> [...]
>>>>>> what about the tty12 bug? can this be fixed with journald? it seems to be
>>>>>> a feature that people don't want to lose?
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure. I'll find out. It should be trivial really... i.e. all it
>>>>> really needs is a journalctl -f command run on tty12. You could craft an
>>>>> agetty command that worked like that easily enough, although there may
>>>>> be something more elegant that is more efficient and cleaner.
>>>>
>>>> since the tty12 "feature" is present now, it would be nice if it could still
>>>> be there and started as soon as possible, just like before.
>>>
>>> Just to try it, can you set:
>>>
>>> TTYPath=/dev/tty12
>>> ForwardToConsole=yes
>>>
>>> in /etc/systemd/journald.conf
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not 100% sure whether it really should be available by default tho'.
>>> I mean, if you are a logged in user you cannot view the system logs
>>> unless you are in the adm group or root. Why should you just be able to
>>> see it via switching to a tty? Seems somewhat counter intuitive to me.
>>
>> I think it used to be enabled or not by msec depending on security level
> 
> /usr/share/msec/plugins/msec.py:    def enable_console_log(self, arg,
> expr='*.*', dev='tty12'):

Ahhhh, OK, so perhaps just some tweakage there could do the trick...

Col



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