Syslog Question

[Chad Rendell_1]

Is there a way to allow syslog to append new entries instead of creating syslog.old. I want to open Syslog even after a reboot and see all messages. I hope this makes sence

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Chad,

The only way I know is to edit the /sbin/init.d/syslogd script & comment out the

mv /var/adm/syslog/syslog /var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log

AND

> /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

lines. This is where that action is performed.

BUT NOTE: Any changes here are fair game to be overwritten by a patch in the future!

HTH,
Jeff

[John Poff]

Hi Chad,

One way to do it might be to add a script to your startup that will append the contents of OLDsyslog.log to another syslog file, something like syslog.log.all. That way you would always have all the syslog messages in one file no matter how many times your system reboots. Plus, your script would be separate from the standard system scripts and it would be safe from any patches in the future.

JP

[Steven E. Protter]

You don't want to do post 1. syslog.log needs to be of reasonable size so you can actually use it for problem diagnosis.

A different idea would be to add a startup script that cat oldsyslog >> /home/root/biglog

Do it as a seperate install script so that future patches don't overwrite you.

SEP