need to find a log of activities

[Vipin Singhal]

I need to find a log of activities on my server for the time period between 18:10 and 18:35 on warbler on Nov. 16, 2005?

How will i find?
Please suggest
vipin

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Vipin,

Logs are located in:

/var/adm/syslog

syslog.log is general
mail.log is email activity.

Its possible to customize your logging.

Unless the volume is huge, I manually scan the log, which is in time order.

The question is where does warbler keep its logs.

SEP

[Pete Randall]

There is no such log file that is created automatically. The only thing you can do is check /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log and the output of the "dmesg" command to see if anything is entered there.


Pete

[Vipin Singhal]

Hi,
what will be the synopsis by using dmesg command for the time period between 18:10 and 18:35 on Nov. 16, 2005?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The 'dmesg' buffer is small and circular. That is, it can be overwitten. It is intended for system diagnostic messages. See the man pages for 'dmesg' for more information.

If you are truly interested in tracking and researching server activities, you need to enable accounting. See the man pages for 'acctsh(1M)' for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Deoncia Grayson_1]

dmesg collect system diagnostic messages and is overwritten...you may not have any notations for Nov 16 if anything occured since then or if nothing occured on Nov 16

you best bet is to use your syslogs to track any system errors in /var/adm/syslog if you do not have any other monitoring tools in place on your server