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pvcreate not in the syslog

Aaron_82 — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:50:51 GMT

Is there a place that tells me when a pvcreate was invoked? When I run a pvcreate or even a pvcreate -f it does not show up in the syslog even though other lvm commands do.

Re: pvcreate not in the syslog

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:11:55 GMT

I can not recall pvcreate ever logging anything in my syslog.

Back when I used sam, that has its own log.

lvm tools report results back to the command line/stdout.

SEP

Re: pvcreate not in the syslog

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:12:10 GMT

Hi Aaron,

Only way I know of is to check the date/time stamp on the raw device.
So if you want to know when c2t5d0 was pvcreated - check /dev/rdsk/c2t5d0 with an ll command.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: pvcreate not in the syslog

Aaron_82 — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:16:47 GMT

These boxes are in a cluster so it wasn't invoked in SAM. Seeing that pvcreate can be very destructive one would think it would be logged somewhere.

Re: pvcreate not in the syslog

Jeff Schussele — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:25:51 GMT

Hi (again) Aaron,

Well...I would agree with you to a point.
Remember that all the "destructive" LVM commands are root-only. So you don't let anybody drive the bus until they can make the turn & parallel park the sucker.

My 2 cents,
Jeff

Re: pvcreate not in the syslog

Aaron_82 — Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:28:34 GMT

Jeff,
You get points cuz that was funny