I could have sworn Dan Trainor said this Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 07:12:55PM -0700 ... > Klaus Steden wrote: > >>Hello, Prasad, and thanks for the response - > >> > >>I am aware of the install.log, but I am loking for is a way to redirect > >>Anaconda's messages during the actuall install, or attempt to install, so > >>that I can debug failed installs. > >> > > > > I have to say that that wouldn't suck, as an option. > > > >>From what I've seen looking through the anaconda source code, it wouldn't > >>be too difficult to implement, at least the C portion. > > > > Klaus > > > > Wonder if I can write something to broadcast over syslog to another machine. > In which language? I only know the C one well - although I'd be willing to surmise that the Python approach (like everything else Python) is easy. > > Do you think you'd be able to write this in C? I'm sure others would be > interested in this. > I think I could, although right now I'm way short on time due to work demands. The C API for syslog is fairly straightforward, and is part of libc ... however, the client side of it is pretty dumb and it can only forward logging messages to a remote syslogd if there is a local syslogd - since the daemon is responsible for the forwarding, as instructed by /etc/syslog.conf. An alternative approach may be to use the 'logger' shell command with the '-u' switch, after initializing something to hand off data received from a local Unix domain socket to a remote syslogd. A better approach, imo, would be to incorporate functionality that the *BSD people put in their 'logger' command - a '-h' switch that allows you to specify a destination host. In the end, syslog is simply a UDP message-passing framework with some filtering logic on top. Shouldn't be too hard - but I know it'll be some weeks before I can even entertain the idea. What's everyone else out there think of the idea? Klaus
