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Hello there,

How do I make the access.log (squid) flooding in the console/tty without
using tail -f?If i'm using tail -f , I will have to log in as
user....I'm using Redhat Linux.

thanks in advance.

maher

Hi!,

Quote:> How do I make the access.log (squid) flooding in the console/tty without
> using tail -f?If i'm using tail -f , I will have to log in as
> user....I'm using Redhat Linux.

You can if you want, but it means you will have no copy of the access.log for
future reference, actually put a symbolic link between the access.log file and
a raw console device name.  I have done it before when we didn't need to keep
the logs but just wanted to see what was going on.  We just sent the output to
one of the virtual consoles.  Of course we had to de-activate the virtual
console in the startup sequence.

See ya

Dean Thompson

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I as a rule, direct all syslog logging to /dev/tty12
just add the line:
*.*                        /dev/tty12
to /etc/syslog.conf

and all logs made by syslog, will be displayed on tty12, in addition to be
written to the log files.
in your case, you can add a rule only for squid in /etc/syslog.conf

Katriel.

Hi!,

Quote:> I as a rule, direct all syslog logging to /dev/tty12
> just add the line:
> *.*                        /dev/tty12
> to /etc/syslog.conf

> and all logs made by syslog, will be displayed on tty12, in addition to be
> written to the log files.
> in your case, you can add a rule only for squid in /etc/syslog.conf

You may need to add a global write to the terminal so that it can write to it
(although syslog runs as root, so it won't be a problem).  You may want to put
it on a terminal however which ranges somewhere from 1-8 rather than 12.  I
have seem some systems have problems providing support for high numbered
terminals.

See ya

Dean Thompson

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if the terminal isn't supported, you can always MAKEDEV it...

Quote:

> Hi!,

> > I as a rule, direct all syslog logging to /dev/tty12
> > just add the line:
> > *.*                        /dev/tty12
> > to /etc/syslog.conf

> > and all logs made by syslog, will be displayed on tty12, in addition to
be
> > written to the log files.
> > in your case, you can add a rule only for squid in /etc/syslog.conf

> You may need to add a global write to the terminal so that it can write to
it
> (although syslog runs as root, so it won't be a problem).  You may want to
put
> it on a terminal however which ranges somewhere from 1-8 rather than 12.
I
> have seem some systems have problems providing support for high numbered
> terminals.

> See ya

> Dean Thompson

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Hi!,

Quote:> if the terminal isn't supported, you can always MAKEDEV it...

I was meaning more along the lines of some systems failing to recognise the
F12 key as a key which switches them to that terminal.  It falls more into the
area of some computers not sending the right codes to the computer for them to
realise that they have a 12th virtual terminal screen to display.

See ya

Dean Thompson

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