[SunHELP] syslog question

[Predrag Zecevic [Unix System Administrator]]

Hi,

I can bet that your /etc/syslog.conf has spaces as field separator 
instead '\t' (TABs).
Sun is so ignorant and still uses 30 years old syslog: TABs are required 
as field separator!

Best regards ;-)

Cynthia Leacock wrote:
> I need your help guys.  I'm new to Solaris so bear with me My dmesg or syslog are not being updated...I don't believe.  Here is what I have.  This is not a heavily used server. I think it should at least log when I log into an ID wrong...which is what I"ve tried to do to make output go to this log.
>    
>   SunOS sun64 5.7 Generic_106541-41 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
>    
>   # ps -ef | grep syslogd
>       root  2135     1  0   May 01 ?        0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
>    
>   Here are the last entries in dmesg and /var/adm/messages
>    
>   Apr 23 03:10:03 sun64 syslogd: line 39: unknown priority name ""
>   Apr 30 03:10:16 sun64 syslogd: Could not completely output pending messages while preparing re-configuration
>   Apr 30 03:10:16 sun64 syslogd: discarded 545 messages and restart configuration.
>   Apr 30 03:10:17 sun64 syslogd: line 25: unknown priority name "*"
>   Apr 30 03:10:17 sun64 syslogd: line 34: unknown priority name ""
>   Apr 30 03:10:17 sun64 syslogd: line 39: unknown priority name ""
>   May  1 14:07:29 sun64 syslogd: line 25: unknown priority name "*"
>   May  1 14:07:29 sun64 syslogd: line 34: unknown priority name ""
>   May  1 14:07:29 sun64 syslogd: line 39: unknown priority name ""
>    
>   I have stopped and started syslogd by killing the process associated the syslogd then I ran /usr/sbin/syslogd to start it back.  
>    
>
>
> Cynthia Leacock
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