Comments on: ASL: Using ASL from the command line http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-01-26/asl-using-asl-from-the-command-line The personal weblog of Peter Hosey. Wed, 09 May 2012 18:26:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Cédric Luthi http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-01-26/asl-using-asl-from-the-command-line/comment-page-1#comment-316101 Cédric Luthi Thu, 20 May 2010 19:45:00 +0000 http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-01-26/asl-using-asl-from-the-command-line#comment-316101 Note that <b>you can't turn the ASL Data Store filter off</b>. Although sudo syslog -c syslogd off will tell you Set ASL Data Store syslog filter mask: Off, nothing actually happens in syslogd, the old filter mask still stand. If you want to log all levels in the ASL Data Store, you should use instead sudo syslog -c syslogd -d Anyway, you probably do not want to do that because launchd (pid 1) produces a ton of debug logs. Note that you can’t turn the ASL Data Store filter off. Although sudo syslog -c syslogd off will tell you Set ASL Data Store syslog filter mask: Off, nothing actually happens in syslogd, the old filter mask still stand. If you want to log all levels in the ASL Data Store, you should use instead sudo syslog -c syslogd -d

Anyway, you probably do not want to do that because launchd (pid 1) produces a ton of debug logs.

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