syslog not updating

[rajesh73_1]

Hi
I have PA-RISC rp4440 server with hp-ux 11.11

in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log log is not updating the syslog.log file is empty

pls suggestion how to solve this problem

Regds
Rajesh

[rajesh73_1]

Hi
see the below output

$ more /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
$

Regds
Rajesh

[SoorajCleris · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check syslogd is running. Is there any errors in rc.log

when it is noticed for the firsttime?

use #logger command and just try to log something manually

Regards,
Sooraj

[Matti_Kurkela]

Read /etc/syslog.conf. Has it been customized to store the logs elsewhere?

You can find a factory default version of the configuration file at /usr/newconfig/etc/syslog.conf. To see the differences, use this command:

diff /usr/newconfig/etc/syslog.conf /etc/syslog.conf

Is the syslogd daemon running? If it has died (for example, because the system has been completely out of memory for a while, then recovered without rebooting), syslog messages won't be stored anywhere.

MK

[AnthonySN]

restart the syslogd deamon
by
/sbi/init.d/syslogd stop
/sbi/init.d/syslogd start

[Akif_1]

Hi Rajesh,

Check below syslog file permissions and demon alive or dead.


# cd /var/adm/syslog/
# ll
total 20112
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9083 May 28 00:26 OLDsyslog.log
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 10236438 Jun 26 11:09 mail.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19059 Jun 26 01:04 syslog.log
# ps -ef |grep syslog*
# ps -ef |grep syslogd
root 631 1 0 May 28 ? 0:01 /usr/sbin/syslogd -D
#

Rgd's

[rajesh73_1]

Hi all

thank you very much for your support

i think my syslogd file is correpted i copy the syslogd file from another same server configuration after re start the syslog now it is working

is this correct way?

Thank & Regds
Rajesh

[AnthonySN]

better option would have been as i had read in another post.
cp /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.old
empty the syslog file by
>/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

tail -100 /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.old >> /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

/sbin/init.d/syslogd start

then you can delete /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log.old

[rajesh73_1]

Thankyou for all

SSJ

sorry i did it rplace the syslogd thankyou

Regds
Rajesh

[rajesh73_1]

Thankyou for all support