01-09-2004
Read the man page for syslog.conf - it is VERY informative.
Quote:
facility.level /..../hardware.log
The problem is: what to put in the facility field (kern?, daemon? or something else).
Another problem is: once the configuration file has been modified, do i have to restart the syslogd daemon in order to have my modification taken into account?
The last question is: once the hardware related system messages will be logged in the file "hardware.log" what will they look like?
Try kern.warning for the facility.level. Most hardware errors should be seen with this (realize you may still get errors that you don't see - from all the questions you have been asking about syslog and hardware errors, you have some of the other tools available that you need).
Yes, changes to the syslog.conf require you to send a hup signal to the daemon - just find the pid and use the following command replacing xxx with the pid
# kill -HUP xxx
What will the messages look like - hard to say. Each should have the following format:
date time hostname tag[pid]: message
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racoon
RACOON(8) BSD System Manager's Manual RACOON(8)
NAME
racoon -- IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) key management daemon
SYNOPSIS
racoon [-BdFv46] [-f configfile] [-l logfile] [-p isakmp-port]
DESCRIPTION
racoon speaks IKE (ISAKMP/Oakley) key management protocol, to establish security association with other hosts. SPD (Security Policy
Database) in the kernel usually triggers to start racoon. racoon usually sends all of informational messages, warnings and error messages to
syslogd(8) with the facility LOG_DAEMON, the priority LOG_INFO. Debugging messages are sent with the priority LOG_DEBUG. You should config-
ure syslog.conf(5) appropriately to see these messages.
-B Install SA(s) from the file which is specified in racoon.conf(5).
-d Increase the debug level. Multiple -d will increase the debug level even more.
-F Run racoon in the foreground.
-f configfile
Use configfile as the configuration file instead of the default.
-l logfile
Use logfile as the logging file instead of syslogd(8).
-p isakmp-port
Listen to ISAKMP key exchange on port isakmp-port instead of the default port number, 500.
-v The flag causes the packet dump be more verbose, with higher debugging level.
-4
-6 Specifies the default address family for the sockets.
racoon assumes the presence of kernel random number device rnd(4) at /dev/urandom. Informational messages are labeled info, and debugging
messages are labeled debug. You have to configure syslog.conf(5) if you want to see them in a logging file.
RETURN VALUES
The command exits with 0 on success, and non-zero on errors.
FILES
/usr/local/v6/etc/racoon.conf default configuration file.
SEE ALSO
ipsec(4), racoon.conf(5), syslog.conf(5), setkey(8), syslogd(8)
HISTORY
The racoon command first appeared in ``YIPS'' Yokogawa IPsec implementation.
KAME
November 20, 2000 KAME