syslog console log not logging SCSI problems

[Oliver Fromme]

Nick Barnes wrote:
 > One of our FreeBSD boxes has a SCSI controller and disk, which showed
 > problems earlier this week.  There was a lot of of chatter from the
 > SCSI driver in /var/log/messages and to the console.  However, the
 > console is unattended and we only discovered the problem subsequently
 > because /var/log/console.log didn't show any of the chatter.

The console.* syslog facility only logs real console output,
i.e. things written to /dev/console.  That does _not_ include
output from the kernel.

For logging kernel output you have to use the kern.* syslog
facility.

Best regards
   Oliver

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