[SunHELP] syslog question

[Scott Walker]

Actually syslog is supposed to use TABs it's opensource that has removed
this "standard" and went with the put'em in anyway you want model.

Predrag Zecevic [Unix System Administrator] 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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