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:
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Is rsyslog installed?
CC: (none) => jani.valimaa
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 )
Severity: normal => enhancement
It's only since mga3, as we use journalctl as default only since some month
Keywords: (none) => Junior_jobSummary: No syslog messages in console 12 => modify ENABLE_CONSOLE_LOG from msec (was No syslog messages in console 12)Source RPM: (none) => msecWhiteboard: MGA2TOO => (none)
CC: jani.valimaa => (none)
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
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools
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
However, syslog seems to no more been active. :( Since 2009. http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/msec/commit/src/msec/msec.py?id=c7a5d9f905c9e24bc04247b3fedea0732f234477
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