[leafnode-list] Re: posts to gmane go missing

[Martin Brunzel <martin.brunzel@xxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 06:53:36PM -0700, Thufir wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:43:13 -0700, Thufir wrote:
> 
> 
> > Pardon, where's the log to look at?

That's all written in the config of your logging daemon. leafnode is using the
mechanism of your system to log its messages.

> thufir@dur:~$ ll /var/log/news/
> total 76
> drwxr-xr-x  2 news news 4096 Aug 16 12:43 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Aug 16 16:16 ../
> -rw-rw-r--  1 news news   52 Mar 24 12:34 errlog
> -rw-rw-r--  1 news news    0 Mar 24 12:34 news
> -rw-r-----  1 news news    0 Aug 16 12:43 news.crit
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 15 11:29 news.crit.1.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 13 15:50 news.crit.2.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 12 14:05 news.crit.3.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 11 18:09 news.crit.4.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 10 14:14 news.crit.5.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news    0 Aug 16 12:43 news.err
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 15 11:29 news.err.1.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 13 15:50 news.err.2.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 12 14:05 news.err.3.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 11 18:09 news.err.4.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 10 14:14 news.err.5.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news    0 Aug 16 12:43 news.notice
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 15 11:29 news.notice.1.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 13 15:50 news.notice.2.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 12 14:05 news.notice.3.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 11 18:09 news.notice.4.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 news news   20 Aug 10 14:14 news.notice.5.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root  108 Mar 24 12:38 rc.news

> thufir@dur:~$ cat /var/log/news/errlog 
> innd: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

Seems like this was the wrong daemon... :-)

> thufir@dur:~$ sudo cat /var/log/news/rc.news 
> Starting innd.
> Scheduled start of /usr/lib/news/bin/innwatch.
> sendmail: Cannot open mail:25
> Stopping innd: 

Wrond daemon again... :-)

> However, it seems empty...?

The log system in short:

There are several
- severities (Debug, Info, Error, Critical, ...)
- facilities (News, Mail, Local1, Local2, ...)

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?syslog.conf+5

According to their levels (severities) and facilities, some syslogd decides
where to write those messages. Even /dev/null may be written to. So ask the
config file of your syslog daemon, please.

Before that, it may be worth taking some short look into leafnodes config and
get assured, that logging is enabled and it is enabled at the level you want to
log.

Hope, that helps...

Martin
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