System Error Logs

[dcomit]

How can I check for errors logged on Solaris 8?

Dave

 

[mattaw]

Depends.
Try /var/log/syslog or for hardware errors dmesg often includes them at the bottom.

Matthew

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[Mike042]

Most errors are logged in /var/adm/messages by default with mail "debug" messages logged in /var/log/syslog but check the /etc/syslog.conf file to determine what log files are used and what levels (emerg alert crit err warning notice info debug) are recorded.

I hope that helps.

Mike

 

[dcomit]

This is my syslog.conf file. Do I presume correctly that if I want to log panics, I have to add a line like:

*.emerg /var/adm/messages

#ident  "@(#)syslog.conf        1.5     98/12/14 SMI"   /* SunOS 5.0 */
#
# Copyright (c) 1991-1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
# syslog configuration file.
#
# This file is processed by m4 so be careful to quote (`') names
# that match m4 reserved words.  Also, within ifdef's, arguments
# containing commas must be quoted.
#
*.err;kern.notice;auth.notice                   /dev/sysmsg
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit        /var/adm/messages

*.alert;kern.err;daemon.err                     operator
*.alert                                         root

*.emerg                                         *

# if a non-loghost machine chooses to have authentication messages
# sent to the loghost machine, un-comment out the following line:
#auth.notice                    ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/authlog, @loghost)

mail.debug                      ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/syslog, @loghost)

#
# non-loghost machines will use the following lines to cause "user"
# log messages to be logged locally.
#
ifdef(`LOGHOST', ,
user.err                                        /dev/sysmsg
user.err                                        /var/adm/messages
user.alert                                      `root, operator'
user.emerg                                      *
)

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Mike042]

Looks good to me. A couple of things to note, firstly that /etc/syslog.conf is a <tab> separated file (Do Not use spaces) and secondly that by default /usr/lib/newsyslog runs from root crontab every Sunday to "housekeep" /var/adm/messages* files.

I hope that helps.

Mike

 

[dcomit]

Thanks for all the help.

Regards,
Dave