extend history of /var/adm/messages? 1

[dinoteo]

Hi Guys,

Currently, my system will have messages, messages.0 to messages.3. How could I extend the history of the /var/adm/messages or no auto recycling ?

Thanks for any advise in advance.

Cheers,
DT

 

[daFranze]

look at manpage of logadm

Best Regards, Franz
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UNIX System Manager from Munich, Germany

 

[SamBones]

As [tt]root[/tt], do a "[tt]crontab -l[/tt]". One of the cron jobs is [tt]/usr/lib/newsyslog[/tt]. This is the script that rolls [tt]/var/adm/messages[/tt]. It's a pretty simple script so it should be easy to modify for your needs.

The only caveat is that it is a Sun supplied script, so any changes could be overwritted with a future patch or upgrade.

 

[daFranze]

>> ... any changes could be overwritted with ... upgrade.

not with an upgrade, in Solaris 9 and above they replaced newsyslog by a generic mechanism "logadm"

Best Regards, Franz
--
UNIX System Manager from Munich, Germany