Bug 10034

Summary:	modify ENABLE_CONSOLE_LOG from msec (was No syslog messages in console 12)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Morgan Leijström <fri>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	derekjenn, yvesbrungard
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	Junior_job
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	msec	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Morgan Leijström 2013-05-09 10:42:23 CEST

In mga1 (and earlier mandriva) we can see last syslog messages quickli by hitting Ctrl-Alt-12

It is a convenient way and sometimes it is very good to have such quick way.

I understand there may be security issues.

And I can make a desktop shortcut to run less on syslog-

But a shoortcut will always be quickest, if alowed by security demands.

AND, in MSEC settings the option ENABLE_CONSOLE_LOG is by default set to yes, in the default security level.

Either it should work. Or, if it is intended never to be allowed agian, is should be removed from settings.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Morgan Leijström 2013-05-09 10:42:38 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA2TOO

Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2013-05-09 11:01:13 CEST

Is rsyslog installed?

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2013-05-09 16:11:33 CEST

Ah, thank you Jani, i forgot that!
With either rsyslog or syslog-ng it works OK :)

I change this to an enhancement request then:

In MSEC settings GUI, the description for ENABLE_CONSOLE_LOG say "Shows syslog messages on console terminal 12"   Please add to that to that description:

" rsyslog or syslog-ng need be installed for it to work, for info see /var/log/README "

( And, if easily acheiveable, dump /var/log/README in terminal 12 when neither  rsyslog nor syslog-ng is installed, or message about MSEC setting ENABLE_CONSOLE_LOG if it is set to no )

Morgan Leijström 2013-05-09 16:11:54 CEST

Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 3 Manuel Hiebel 2013-05-10 22:37:37 CEST

It's only since mga3, as we use journalctl as default only since some month

Keywords: (none) => Junior_job
Summary: No syslog messages in console 12 => modify ENABLE_CONSOLE_LOG from msec (was No syslog messages in console 12)
Source RPM: (none) => msec
Whiteboard: MGA2TOO => (none)

Jani Välimaa 2013-07-03 20:12:46 CEST

CC: jani.valimaa => (none)

Comment 4 Derek Jennings 2013-07-12 18:28:27 CEST

A way to get the log in tty12 without installing rsyslog is to edit /etc/systemd/journald.conf  and set

ForwardToConsole=yes
TTYPath=/dev/tty12

then restart journald service.

It does not appear to matter if rsyslog is installed as well. Log entries appear only once in tty12

CC: (none) => derekjenn

Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-15 22:54:09 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools

Comment 5 Mageia Robot 2016-10-16 17:01:13 CEST

commit 63be0a4da723a844bb17bfa0dafe8795bde8a296
Author: Papoteur <papoteur@...>
Date:   Sun Oct 16 17:00:39 2016 +0200

    Use journald instead of syslog to get log on tty12 (mga#10034)
    
    this is set by ENABLE_CONSOLE_LOG
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/msec/commit/?id=63be0a4da723a844bb17bfa0dafe8795bde8a296

Comment 6 papoteur 2016-10-16 21:29:36 CEST

However, syslog seems to no more been active. :(
Since 2009.
http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/msec/commit/src/msec/msec.py?id=c7a5d9f905c9e24bc04247b3fedea0732f234477

CC: (none) => yves.brungard_mageia