[SunHELP] Syslog doesn't work...

[jh]

Hello,

the syslog service doesn`t allow blanks in the file /etc/syslog.conf. You
just have to use tabs. If you have used the spacebar when editing the file
there might accure
strange behaviours of the syslog: some facility-level combinations work some
doesn`t. You should try the following:

- look for spacebars, delete them and work with tabs
- then create the log file (if it isn`t there)
- pkill -HUP syslogd
- logger -p facility.level
- cat logfile


Takacs Istvan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Solaris 8
>
> I'm afraid our syslog doesn't want to write its log
> files.
> As I see the daemon runs perfectly:
>
> [log at gep]# ps -ef|grep `cat /etc/syslog.pid`
>             root 20464     1  0 15:46:15 ?        0:01 /usr/sbin/syslogd
>
> But the size of the messages file just 0, so I don't know how
> could this happen?
>
> I have a default syslog.conf.
>
> Could you help me please what should I check?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards;
>
>                 Istvan
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