On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:06:24PM -0500, Brian Wood wrote: > > I have a user who is running this program > > http://webEbenezer.net/misc/cmwAmbassador.cc > > on an Ubuntu system. They aren't getting log messages in > > /var/log/messages. I don't have access to their machine and > > don't have an Ubuntu machine here. Am wondering what syslog > > related differences there are between Ubuntu and Fedora. On my > > Fedora machines things are working fine. Suggestions? I've had > > them run the program with sudo but that make any difference. TIA > > Have they defined 'SYSLOG_AVAILABLE' on the compiler command line? > Can you ask them for the binary, run 'strings' on it and see if the > static strings are actually present? > > Cheers, > florin > > My one thought is to check syslogd.conf (usually in /etc) and make sure syslogd is configured to log the messages your program is sending. If not configured properly, syslogd will drop them. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110622/cd5944b7/attachment.html>