[SunHELP] syslog question

[Cynthia Leacock]

Thanks for your answers.  Sorry for the late response back but I've been swamped.  I do belive there are tabs in the syslog.conf file.  I vi'd the file.  As I went down with "J" it was tabbing over not spacing.

"Predrag Zecevic [Unix System Administrator]" <predrag.zecevic at 2e-systems.com> wrote:  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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