Retransmission: Minor issue w/ syslog ....

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

.... I have a RPiB+ serving as the time server on my LAN. I followed the 
excellent instructions @ 
http://rich-tbp.blogspot.com/2013/03/netbsd-on-rpi-minimizing-disk-writes.html 
(posted on this list a few weeks ago) to try to minimize unnecessary 
disk I/O to prolong the life of the micro SD 'HDD' that the box uses. I 
redirected syslog I/O to another box on the LAN, however I am still 
getting some stuff on the RPi syslog file:


May 10 17:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 11 09:07:17 rpi timed[6547]: measure: kabini1.local did not respond
May 11 09:07:17 rpi timed[6547]: measure: kabini1.local did not respond
May 11 09:31:25 rpi timed[6547]: no reply to time correction from 
kabini1.local
May 11 09:47:19 rpi timed[6547]: measure: kabini1.local did not respond
May 11 09:47:19 rpi timed[6547]: measure: kabini1.local did not respond
May 11 09:51:19 rpi timed[6547]: measure: kabini1.local did not respond
May 11 09:51:19 rpi timed[6547]: measure: kabini1.local did not respond
May 11 15:07:05 rpi su: wam to root on /dev/pts/0
May 11 15:14:17 rpi sshd[24420]: error: PAM: authentication error for 
root from q6600
May 11 10:20:42 rpi syslogd[11087]: last message repeated 2 times
May 11 15:17:41 rpi su: wam to root on /dev/pts/2
May 11 17:06:16 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 12 17:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 13 17:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 14 11:06:16 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 14 17:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 15 17:06:16 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 16 17:06:16 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 16 23:40:44 rpi su: wam to root on /dev/pts/0
May 17 17:06:16 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 18 16:09:50 rpi su: wam to root on /dev/pts/1
May 18 13:06:16 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 18 17:06:16 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 19 17:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 20 17:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 21 04:16:09 rpi su: wam to root on /dev/pts/0
May 21 04:18:27 rpi su: wam to root on /dev/pts/1
May 21 17:06:16 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 22 16:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 22 17:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 23 17:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 24 17:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 25 17:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 26 17:06:16 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
May 26 18:06:15 rpi syslogd[11087]: restart
Wed May 27 15:43:10 MCDT 2015

In particular, the syslogd-restart messages don't show up on the other 
box (the rest does). My syslog.conf follows:


rpi # cat syslog.conf
#       $NetBSD: syslog.conf,v 1.9 2004/07/23 03:45:42 mycroft Exp $

*.err;kern.*;auth.notice;authpriv.none;mail.crit        /dev/console

*.err;kern.*;auth.notice;authpriv.none;mail.crit /var/log/messages

*.err;kern.*;auth.notice;authpriv.none;mail.crit        @kabini1

*.info;auth,authpriv,cron,ftp,kern,lpr,mail.none /var/log/messages
kern.debug /var/log/messages

*.info;auth,authpriv,cron,ftp,kern,lpr,mail.none        @kabini1
kern.debug                                              @kabini1

# The authpriv log file should be restricted access; these
# messages shouldn't go to terminals or publically-readable
# files.
auth,authpriv.info /var/log/authlog

cron.info /var/log/cron
ftp.info /var/log/xferlog
lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs
mail.info /var/log/maillog
#uucp.info /var/spool/uucp/ERRORS

*.emerg                                                 *

*.emerg                                                 @kabini1

#*.notice                                               root
rpi # uname -a
NetBSD rpi 7.0_BETA NetBSD 7.0_BETA (RPI.201503272230Z) evbarm
rpi #

Basically, I duplicated all lines that I found going to messages & sent 
them to kabini1, the other box. However, the syslogd-restart messages 
don't make it over there. Could be pilot error, but I would like to 
eventually comment out *ALL* of the lines writing to my messages file, 
w/o missing any messages, no matter how trivial (such as syslogd 
restarting). Any clues appreciated. TIA & have a good one.


C'mon, throw me a bone ;-) ....



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