syslog console log not logging SCSI problems

[Nick Barnes]

At 2008-05-20 16:21:01+0000, Oliver Fromme writes:
> 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.

OK.  So when syslogd directs output to the console, it does not also
treat it as console.* output?  Thanks for this explanation. I'll
modify my syslog.conf accordingly.

Nick B