syslogd does not start

[Mario Caceres_1]

Hi folks, I don't know if you can help me with this but the thing is that I have a PA-RISC B2000 workstation with HP-UX 11i installed
and sometimes (while working) it powers-off for no reason. Sometimes I see a powerfail message but the halt is too quick to really check that...

Also, every time the workstation boots I see a FAILED attempt to start the syslogd, so I can't check for errors in the syslog.log file because it's empty.

The hardware monitors are runing.

How can I find out what might be the problem?

Seems to me a hardware problem, an electrical one, and I don't think it's due to a power supply fault because apparently works perfectly

Any advise will be appreciated!!

Thanx in advance!!

Mario.

[Franky_1]

Hi Mario,

you could look in the /etc/rc.log file for any reasons that caused the trouble. There should be entries if the daemon wasn't able to come up.

Can you start the syslogd by using /sbin/init.d/syslogd on the command line ?

Regards

Franky

[John Poff]

Hi,

You might check /var to make sure that filesystem isn't full, and that the /var/adm/syslog directory exists and isn't trashed and doesn't have wrong permissions/ownership.

JP

[MarkSyder]

What is the last entry in /var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log? It might provide a clue.

If the power off is caused by a hardware fault there might be a mail message to warn you. Type elm and read the most recent messages.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Mario,

As to the syslogd trouble I'd suspect a corrupt /etc/syslog.conf file. Try copying that file from another system that has no syslogd trouble.

HTH,
Jeff

[Dave Olker]

Hi Mario,

Similar to Jeff's suggestion, you can copy the default syslog.conf file from the /usr/newconfig directory. You can rename the existing /etc/syslog.conf file first, just to be sure you have any changes saved that you may want to re-integrate later when syslogd is working.

# mv /etc/syslog.conf /etc/syslog.conf.OLD

# cp /usr/newconfig/etc/syslog.conf /etc/syslog.conf

Another thing to try is to start syslogd with the -d option, which enables debug logging. If syslogd still doesn't start when the default /etc/syslog.conf file is in place, hopefully the debug output of launching syslogd with -d will give you an indication as to why.

# /usr/sbin/syslogd -d -D

The -d option will cause syslogd to run in the foreground, but again, hopefully it will tell you why it is exiting - assuming it does exit with an error.

Hope this helps,

Dave

[Mark Greene_1]

You could have an electrical short. If you haven't already, replace the power cord, verify that you are plugged into a good, consistent powersource, and consider replacing the powersupply.

mark