system log

[aaronkeith]

is there a file in AIX that we can check that contains all the activities done by the operating system. if auditing is not enabled?

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi,

for errors see errpt ( type in errpt |pg )
for errors / output generated by cron see mail ( mailx)
you can also set to monitor your own messages by using the syslogd daemon which looks in /etc/syslog.conf
( man syslogd) , you can monitor

mail - Mail subsystem
daemon -System daemons
auth -Security or authorization
syslog -syslogd daemon
lpr - Line-printer subsystem
news - News subsystem
uucp - uucp subsystem
* All facilities

e.g. in syslog.conf file you can have entries lioke
mail.debug /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
user.notice /usr/adm/cluster.log
*.debug /tmp/syslog.log


*.debug,user.notice,mail.debug are priority levels ( type
man syslogd , explains what they mean)
Also if you turn on ftp logging , telnet logging by specifying the releveant options when you start the daemons , they can be viewed if you have an entry daemon.info in /etc/syslog.conf i.e.

daemon.info /var/adm/syslog.log


To view system boot log type :-

alog -o -t boot | more


HTH