Quote Originally Posted by Forester View Post
Hi Charlie,

If you're looking at logging out of curiosity then good on you mate. If you looking at logging 'cos you think you can improve on the default configuration then I raise an eyebrow.

First thing to note is that with the LiveCD (as you have) and the LiveUSB (as I have) system logging is handled by syslog, which is very common on small footprint (aka embedded) systems. On desktop and server systems, system logging is usually handled by rsyslog, which is more robust and has more sophisticated log rotation and compression. I think that the Knoppix install to HD may use rsyslog since I don't have a boot log file and Bo does. It means any advice you get from someone with a HD install may need careful interpretation.

Thanks, Forester, you clarified things quite a bit.

I've actually installed to my hdd. The main reason I wanted the logs to go to my HDD was so that I could post snippets of them to try to troubleshoot the problems I'm having with losing my wireless connection.

So I renamed everything back and mimiced utu's syslog-knoppix.conf:

Code:
# /etc/syslog-knoppix.conf
 # Configuration file for syslogd started from /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig
 #
 # This file is here merely to avoid logging to the system console when
 # programs do an openlog() with LOG_CONS, which would clutter the output for
 # screenreaders. acpid is known to do that.

 # Normal logging messages go to /dev/tty12, except for passwords
 *.*;auth,authpriv.none /dev/tty12

 # ONLY Emergency messages are allowed to go to all consoles.
 *.emerg *

 # Add back kern.log and syslog
 kern.* /var/log/kern.log
 *.*;auth,authpriv.none /var/log/syslog