syslog

[AIXtexas]

I'm trying to turn on syslog on all my AIX servers. I got the below example out of a book. I want to write all output to a file called /tmp/syslog.out. I restarted the inetd daemon like I was supposed to and its gathering data. Is there anything I missed as far as items to monitor? Or do the below entries pretty much cover everything?

mail.debug /tmp/syslog.out
mail.none /tmp/syslog.out
auth.notice /tmp/syslog.out
lpr.debug /tmp/syslog.out
kern.debug /tmp/syslog.out
*.emerg;*.alert;*.crit;*.warning;*.err;*.notice;*.info /tmp/syslog.out

Thanks,

Shane Burkhart

 

[tsuba]

Have you created an empty file in /tmp/syslog.out? Also you need to refresh/restart the syslogd daemon...
Best Regards
HTT

 

[AIXtexas]

Yes, I created the empty file and restarted the daemon and it's collecting data as it should. I was just wondering if the entries I have in the syslog.conf file were sufficient to capture any and all errors.

 

[p5wizard]

Just a thought:

Depending on your email traffic volume, you might and up with a fast growing file and possible full /tmp. You might want to keep an eye on that.



HTH,

p5wizard

 

[AIXtexas]

Thanks. I think I'll end up moving the output dir to a FS with more space.

Shane