A sort of plan for consoles in FreeBSD

[Julian Elischer]

M. Warner Losh wrote:

>In message: <86pshx85tu.fsf at xps.des.no>
>            des at des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
>: "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
>: > There's no way to 'connect to syslogd and subscribe to messages' in
>: > the current syslogd.
>: 
>: tail -F /var/log/messages
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in  -currnet you can listen on any UDP port and have syslog send you stuff.

>That doesn't give you what I described.  What that does is give you
>the messages that syslogd writes to /var/log/messages.  This is a
>subset of the messages sent to syslogd, and doesn't have the severity
>levels, facilities, etc associated with them.  There's no way for one
>to connect to syslogd and dynamically filter the records that are
>displayed.  While adding such a facility wouldn't be that hard, it
>does not exist today.
>
>Warner
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