Subj : Bbs not logging to syslog
To   : Khronos
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Apr 07 2023 11:45:46

  Re: Bbs not logging to syslog
  By: Khronos to All on Fri Apr 07 2023 06:02 am

 > Hi,
 > I am getting along nicely with my system setup. One thing that is troubling
 > me is that I don't seem to be getting any logs for the bbs in the syslog.
 > I have the syslog level set to 3 and have it logging to the syslog
 > /var/log/sbbs.log file.

syslog level 3 is "critical", meaning you will only be logging messages of a critical severity or worse (higher in severity). That won't be very many messages logged, if any at all. A normal syslog level would be 6 (INFO) or 7 (DEBUG).

 > For the time being I am running the bbs manually with sudo /sbbs/exec/sbbs.
 > If I want to see any log messages I have to run it in console mode instead
 > of using the daemon option.
 > Using Ubuntu Linux for this install.
 >
 > What is the best way for me to figure out where I am going wrong here?

It's best to run sbbs on Ubuntu Linux using systemd, not "manually with sudo". See the install/systemd/sbbs.service file for instructions.

Once running sbbs in that manner, you'd use 'journalctl -u sbbs' to read/search the log output. To see the log output in real time, you'd use 'journalctl -f -u sbbs'.
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