topic Re: server logs query in Operating System - HP-UX

server logs query

Senthil Kumar .A_1 — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:29:55 GMT

hello admins
is there any other place i can get old logs about system other than OLDsyslog.log

Re: server logs query

Pete Randall — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:31:49 GMT

Try this:

find /var -name *log*

That should show you all (or nearly all) of the available logs.

Pete

Re: server logs query

Graham Cameron_1 — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 07:38:27 GMT

It depends on your setup.
By default, at system boot, a script runs (/sbin/init.d/syslogd) which renames the previous syslog.log to OLDsyslog.log and creates a new empty one.
But there's nothing to stop you modifying this script to save as many previous copies as you like, or whatever else takes your fancy.
You should also look at the config file for syslogd, in /etc/syslog.conf. This also allows you to direct different message types to different destinations.
See "man syslogd" for more info.

-- Graham

Re: server logs query

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:47:35 GMT

Hi Senthil,

Old logs include /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log, /etc/rc.log, /var/tombstones/ts*, /var/sam/log/samlog, /var/adm/cron/log etc.,

Logs like *tmp, sulog etc are cumulative.

-Sri