Re: Autofs logs
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 16:08 +0100, Mark Farmer
wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've been scouring man pages, Google etc but
don't seem to be able to figure this one
> out.
> I'd like to have syslog put automount messages
into a file other than
> /var/log/messages because we have lots of users
who have no home directory & the
> messages file is getting very cluttered with
mount failures.
Mark,
As John mentioned, you could use syslog-ng, but
it's not supported by
Red Hat. To my knowledge, there is no way to get
autofs logs elsewhere
because they're actually coming from the kernel. They
are not coming
from the automount processes, but from the kernel
module named autofs.
Since they're kernel messages, they're logged to
/var/log/messages.
John mentioned changing source code to get autofs
to log to LOCAL1 or
whatever. That would work, but you'd be unsupported
again.
I would consider submitting a support request
asking for an autofs
module option (to be placed in /etc/modules.conf) that
would allow you
to configure autofs syslog to another facility.
modinfo -p autofs shows there are currently zero
parameters you could
mess with in modules.conf :(
FYI, Red Hat inherits autofs4 from kernel.org. You
might subscribe to
this list and ask the question there:
http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/autofs
If the autofs maintainers add a module option for
syslog facility, you
could then push Red Hat to port that change into a
RHEL 4 update.
/Brian/
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