HP-UX Syslogd

[Tony Morris_1]

I am trying to get syslogd to output the usual messages to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log for all the different services on HP-UX 11.00. I have done this by setting this line is /etc/syslog.conf:
*.emerg;*.alert;*.crit;*.err;*.warning;*.notice;*.info/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
I am finding certain services aren't outputting anything to this file such as telnetd and a few more.
I am wondering what it is that I have to do to allow all services logging info to go to this file. I know that ftpd can be done by running it with the -l flag but what about all the others ?
Thanks for your help

[Michael Tully]

Hi,

Basically you need to run the 'inetd' daemon with the -l option. Have a look at this posting. James and Clay give some really good advice.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x95e0d211e18ad5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

HTH
~Michael~

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Tony,

Enabling all facilities doesn't necessarily log all the messages into syslog. The corresponding service should log the messages. Some of them only do after enabling the options like ftpd with -l or -v.

-Sri

[Tony Morris_1]

Thanks for the tips. I should have also mentioned that I had already tried running /usr/sbin/inetd -l, however, the format of the log message isn't as descriptive as I'd like, also, I would like to be able to cater for daemons that aren't running under inetd. For example, when the ftpd is run with -l, it outputs a very descriptive message, however ftpd run under inetd with with -l flag is not so descriptive. I'd imagine that it would be up to the application itself to output logs, is there some config. file for telnetd and other daemons ?