Several years ago I set my BBS up to write the log to syslog. Recently, some shit for brains decided that having syslog was "bad" so now there is no easy way to just load syslog and search it.

I want to revert back to having Synchronet keeps its own log. How do I do that?

And, no I am not looking for a lecture on how this way is better.

Thanks.

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Several years ago I set my BBS up to write the log to syslog. Recently, some shit for brains decided that having syslog was "bad" so now there is no easy way to just load syslog and search it.

I want to revert back to having Synchronet keeps its own log. How do I do that?

And, no I am not looking for a lecture on how this way is better.

Thanks.

Nevermind, I found the answer right after posting. Now, if I take 'syslog' off the command line, and I am not running daemonized, where does the log go? The wiki mentions sbbs.log, but I am not finding that in /var/log or ~/data/logs. Where does it go?

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Dumas Walker wrote to All <=-

Several years ago I set my BBS up to write the log to syslog.
Recently, some shit for brains decided that having syslog was
"bad" so now there is no easy way to just load syslog and search
it.

I want to revert back to having Synchronet keeps its own log.
How do I do that?

I am using Slackware Linux, and in my /etc/syslog.conf I've added this
near the bottom of the file:

# Synchronet BBS logging - added by Dan C. 2/17/19
local3.* -/var/log/sbbs.log

The "3" on the end of the "local" keyword is because I've also changed
my /sbbs/ctrl/sbbs.ini to have this in the [UNIX] section at the bottom:

; Defaults to using the USER facility.
LogFacility = 3

The result of these two settings produces my log in /var/log/sbbs.log

Hope that helps!




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On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 08:58:27 -0500
"Dumas Walker" (VERT/CAPCITY2)
<VERT/CAPCITY2!Dumas.Walker@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

Several years ago I set my BBS up to write the log to syslog.
Recently, some shit for brains decided that having syslog was "bad"
so now there is no easy way to just load syslog and search it.

I want to revert back to having Synchronet keeps its own log. How do
I do that?

And, no I am not looking for a lecture on how this way is better.

Thanks.

#

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FWIW
$ cat /etc/rsyslog.d/40-synchronet.conf
if $programname == 'synchronet' then {
if $msg startswith ' web ' then {
action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/sbbs/web.sbbs.log"
fileOwner="bbs" fileGroup="bbs") } else if $msg startswith ' mail '
then { action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/sbbs/mail.sbbs.log"
fileOwner="bbs" fileGroup="bbs") } else if $msg startswith ' srvc '
then { action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/sbbs/service.sbbs.log" fileOwner="bbs" fileGroup="bbs") } else if $msg startswith ' evnt BINK'
then { action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/sbbs/binkit.sbbs.log" fileOwner="bbs" fileGroup="bbs") } else if $msg startswith ' evnt '
then { action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/sbbs/event.sbbs.log"
fileOwner="bbs" fileGroup="bbs") } else if $msg startswith ' term '
then { action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/sbbs/term.sbbs.log"
fileOwner="bbs" fileGroup="bbs") } else if $msg startswith ' ftp ' then
{ action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/sbbs/ftp.sbbs.log"
fileOwner="bbs" fileGroup="bbs") }
else
{
action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/sbbs/sbbs.log" fileOwner="bbs" fileGroup="bbs") }
stop
}
if $programname == 'ircd' then {
action(type="omfile" file="/var/log/sbbs/ircd.log" fileOwner="bbs" fileGroup="bbs") stop
}
I basically get a different file for each service in /var/log/sbbs
in my systemd file
#StandardOutput=syslog
#StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=synchronet
#SyslogFacility=local3
All the logging stuff is commented out except for SyslogIdentifier.
sbbs.ini contains
; Defaults to using the USER facility.
LogFacility=3
; syslog identity to use (when daemonized)
LogIdent=synchronet
Somehow, it all works.
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Re: Re: Moving SBBS logging out of syslog
By: Dumas Walker to All on Fri Feb 16 2024 10:26 am

Several years ago I set my BBS up to write the log to syslog. Recently, some shit for brains decided that having syslog was "bad" so now there is no easy way to just load syslog and search it.

I want to revert back to having Synchronet keeps its own log. How do I do that?

And, no I am not looking for a lecture on how this way is better.

Thanks.

Nevermind, I found the answer right after posting. Now, if I take 'syslog' off the command line, and I am not running daemonized, where does the log go? The wiki mentions sbbs.log, but I am not finding that in /var/log or ~/data/logs. Where does it go?

It goes to syslog (the daemon/service, not necessarily the file "syslog"). Look at your syslog configuration file to find out which *files* it goes to. Or use something like journalctl (if you have it) to view them based on service. There's also tools like lnav which are nice for viewing logs.
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