topic Re: System log checker in Operating System - HP-UX

System log checker

Justin Glass — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:09:40 GMT

I need to install a system log checker on all of our unix systems. The only available program that i have been able to find is one called "Logsentry" that can be found on CNET, but when i go to install it, i'm unable to gunzip the file even though it is a .gz extension. Do you know of another available log checker program that i could consider trying or another option?

Re: System log checker

harry d brown jr — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:18:30 GMT

Justin,

What kind of error did you get? If you used FTP to get the file, did you do it using the BINARY transfer mode? Also, are you using the latest version of gunzip?

live free or die
harry

Re: System log checker

Nick Wickens — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:44:24 GMT

I had a go at writing a basic syslog check for some specific problems that we wanted to capture here - Its attached if you want to use it.

Re: System log checker

Nick Wickens — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:48:53 GMT

Try again with attachment -

Re: System log checker

Steven Sim Kok Leong — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:21:26 GMT

Hi,

Give swatch a try:

http://www.oit.ucsb.edu/~eta/swatch/

Swatch was written to actively monitor messages as they are written to a log file via the UNIX syslog utility.

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

Re: System log checker

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:25:11 GMT

I can recall that SAM has a log monitoring interface in there somewhere, although it does not archiving/rollover, it at least monitors the logs!

I can recall Bill Hassel has a nifty log rotate cron script somewhere in his archives.. I'll ping the post back up!

Later,
Bill

Re: System log checker

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:28:32 GMT

Oops, pinged the wrong one:

Here's my link on the subject:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xbb188ffa98a2d5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Good Luck,
Bill

Re: System log checker

Jeff Schussele — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:28:34 GMT

Hi Justin,

Do a
gunzip -tv filename.gz
to test integrity of the gzip file.
Suspect you have a bad file.

HTH,
Jeff

Re: System log checker

Bill Thorsteinson — Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:28:07 GMT

I run logcheck on our HP-UX
and Linux systems. It runs
mostly with native tools.
There is only one non-native
tool used to strip off the
log since the last check.

I believe it is on the porting
center site. It is on the
Debian Linux site.

I find it easy to configure
and tune.