syslogd is not logging

[ROSS HANSON]

My hpux 11i system is logging the mail just fine
but for some reason when you do a ll in
/var/adm/syslog syslog.log shows 0
the permissions are 644 and owned by root:root
I have stopped and restarted the syslogd daemon but that does not seem to help.
What do I do??

[Sundar_7 · Accepted solution]

What do you have in /etc/syslog.conf ?

restore the default /etc/syslog.conf if you dont have any customization

# cp /usr/newconfig/etc/syslog.conf /etc/
# kill -1 `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid`

- Sundar.

[James George_1]

check in /etc/syslog.conf to make sure that your logs are directed to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log . You should see something like this in your syslog.conf

mail.debug /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
*.info;mail.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

Good Luck

James

[Ken Penland_1]

also make sure there are tabs seperating fields in your syslog.conf instead of spaces...if you have spaces in there it wont work

[Marlou Everson]

Did you do a ps -ef | grep syslogd to make sure it is really running?

Also, you can use logger(1) to do a test and actually write a line in the log file.

Marlou

[HGN]

Hi

You need to check the syslog.conf file ,try and see if there was any changes made to it, if still you are not clear try and restore a old working copy after that stop and start the syslogd daemon, this should start working.If you have edited there might be some extra characters in the syslogd.conf file for example you have to use tab instaed of space bar, you can check again to amke sure.

Rgds

HGN