Syslog is not updating properly

[pkumar97]

Dear Team,
In my syslog the logs are not properly updating , some ftp sessions and some switch user log is updating remaining things are not updating

Feb 19 21:34:41 agcdevap root: Some test message
Feb 19 21:45:56 agcdevap su: + tb root-appldev
Feb 19 23:30:00 agcdevap su: + tty?? root-appldev
Feb 20 00:54:11 agcdevap su: + ta root-appldev
Feb 20 01:06:49 agcdevap su: + ta root-applcln
Feb 20 06:30:00 agcdevap su: + tty?? root-appldev
Feb 22 09:52:48 agcdevap root: this is a test login
Feb 22 12:26:36 agcdevap su: + ta root-appltest
Feb 22 23:30:00 agcdevap su: + tty?? root-appldev
Feb 23 06:30:00 agcdevap su: + tty?? root-appldev
Feb 23 12:36:39 agcdevap ftpd[22440]: Data port : 20
Feb 23 12:36:39 agcdevap ftpd[22440]: FTP server (Revision 1.1 Version wuftpd-2.6.1(PHNE_34306) Mon Mar 13 11:15:29 GMT 2006) ready.
Feb 23 12:36:39 agcdevap ftpd[22440]: FTP LOGIN FROM 192.168.33.25 [192.168.33.25], applcln
Feb 23 12:51:59 agcdevap ftpd[22440]: User applcln timed out after 900 seconds at Mon Feb 23 12:51:59 2009
Feb 23 12:51:59 agcdevap ftpd[22440]: FTP session closed

[Laurent Menase]

do you mean the tty??

this is usually due to doing su while you are not on a tty, like
ssh toto@titi su applcln

or ssh -n or remsh,

[Mounaam]

Hi,
check in your /etc/syslog.conf what facility and level have to log in the syslog.log.

By default you have this:
*.info;mail.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

Regards.

[pkumar97]

i mean to say suppose a user is logging in from his terminal and he is switching as a root user , that log normmaly updating on syslog , but here it is not updating , when i tried to update using logger it is working and if am doing ftp that also is working

[pkumar97]

mail.debug /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
*.info;mail.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
*.alert /dev/console
*.alert root
*.emerg *


this is my entry in /etc/syslog.conf

[Sani]

But what is the problem here??

[pkumar97]

Dear Sani ,
The problem is this syslog is not updating on a regular basis , sometimes it is updating some times not , but the deamon is running fine

[Sani]

Can you do vgchange/vgimport etc and check it is updating syslog