How to make the logfiles talk

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Hi,

*iff* mgetty answered the phone, and the log level is high enough, and
you haven't truncated the log file without mgetty restarting, then you
will definitely see something in the mgetty logs.

UUCP will fail silently (which is very bad, IMHO) if it can't write
to the log file, or can't access some other critical paths.

gert

On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 05:20:01PM +0200, Hans-Joachim Zierke wrote:
> On Sunday afternoon, I sat in front of my girlfriends computer quite a 
> distance away.
> uucico starting, modem connects, waiting for login, got that, waiting for 
> word, and plash.
> 
> Okay, Sunday evening at home, looking for the reason:
> 
> /var/log/mgetty.ttyS2  has no entry.
> /var/spool/uucp/Log    has no entry.
> 
> Ummpff. How do I set up the system that it actually logs failed logins?
> 
> 
> hajo
> 

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