Syslog Msg

[Abhijit P.]

Hi Friends,

whenever I login to my server it shows the syslog error message as follows

syslog: Pid 8668. Failed to open Info Log file <>. Err=
Apr 6 16:00:01 (Server Name) syslog: Pid 8668. Program <> Failed to open Error Log file <>. Err=.

and this message gets repeated in between.

Thanks in Advance
Abhijit Panse

[harry d brown jr]

can you post your /etc/syslog.conf file? Also check the date it was last modified. Check the path names in syslog.conf to make sure they are correct.

Also, what method are you using to login with (telnet, rexec, rlogin, ...) ?

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harry d brown jr

[Peter Godron]

Abhijit,
can you check if you are trying to run a program from your login profile.

Normally the "No such file or directory" message means you are trying to write to and read from a non-existent file/directory.
Regards

[Abhijit P.]

thanks to both

brwon please below syslog.conf

# syslogd configuration file.
#
# See syslogd(1M) for information about the format of this file.
#
mail.debug /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
*.info;mail.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
*.alert /dev/console>/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
*.alert root
*.emerg *
Regards,
Abhijit

[harry d brown jr]

Abhijit,


What method are you using to login with (telnet, rexec, rlogin, ...) ?

What does

ls -l /var/adm/syslog/*.log

bdf /var/adm/syslog

ls -l /etc/syslog.conf

return?

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harry d brown jr

[Abhijit P.]

Hi Brown,

I am using telnet to login to the server

please find below outputs of the commands :


ls -l /var/adm/syslog/*.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 822286 Apr 5 15:12 /var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 478549 Apr 6 07:15 /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 467337 Apr 6 17:45 /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log



bdf /var/adm/syslog
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol8 4710400 1761112 2928024 38% /var


ls -l /etc/syslog.conf
-r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 278 Jan 6 17:21 /etc/syslog.conf

Regards,
Abhijit

[harry d brown jr]

What does

ps -ef | grep 8668

return (if anything)


After you telnet in, does your login session go into some Oracle application?

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harry d brown jr

[Abhijit P.]

hi...

it doesn't return anything and I am logging into any oracle apps. as I am logging in by root

Regards,
Abhijit

[Abhijit P.]

sorry it was i am not logging in any of the oracle apps as i am logging in by root

[Stephen Keane]

Change your /etc/syslog.conf to

# syslogd configuration file.
#
# See syslogd(1M) for information about the format of this file.
#
mail.debug /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
*.info;mail.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
*.alert /dev/console
*.alert /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
*.alert root
*.emerg *

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

Why do you have this format in /etc/syslog.conf ?

*.alert /dev/console>/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

it should read

*.alert /dev/console

THe next line

*.alert root

will EMAIL root with alerts any ways.

Fix /etc/syslog, then execute this:

kill `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

Then login and see if it is still happening.

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harry d brown jr

[Abhijit P.]

hi brown and stephen..
thanks for your reply

after making changes in syslog.conf the problem was still persisting but when i did

kill `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

till now it has not come...so I hope that the problem has got solved.

But I will keep the thred open till evening just to observe.

Please tell me whether any other sttings I need to do.

Thank you very much both of you once again I will assign the points at the time of closing.

Thanks and regards,
Abhijit Panse
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[Abhijit P.]

thank you brown and stephen

Problem is solved

Abhi

[Abhijit P.]

found the solution given by Brown

Thanks to all

Regards,
Abhijit Panse