Where are system logs?

[Stoichkov]

Excuse how can i see the LOGS in my HP UX, where are located this files.

:-)

[Kent Ostby]

/var/adm/syslog/* is where most of them are.

[Rick Garland]

As stated, most in /var/adm/syslog

What logs are you wanting to see?

[DCE]

startup lop /etc/rc.log

other logs are /var/adm amd /var/adm/syslog

you can view them with the cat command, more command, or even vi.

more /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

[HGN]

Hi

The different logs are in
/var/adm
sulog
shutdownlog
/var/adm/syslog
syslog.log
mail.log

Rgds

HGN

[Rory R Hammond]

If you are looking for syslog locations.

I would first look at /etc/syslog.conf.

this is were the locations are defined and could be modified on your system.


Rory

[Ralph Grothe]

Though the most important system's logs have already been named
there are a few that hide in not too intuitive places.
So another hot candidate is /var/opt.

e.g.

Resource monitoring events go here

/var/opt/resmon/log/event.log

Your last system recovery backup log goes here

/var/opt/ignite/recovery/latest/recovery.log

(n.b. latest is a symlink pointing to the latest ignite subdir)

If you need to track down any difficulties with software or patch installation etc. there are the various logs

/var/adm/sw/sw*.log

Since it is common practice to place logfiles of most applications and services beneath /var on most Unices you might find many more if you run a find like

# find /var -type f -name \*log

If an application is logging via syslogd
you could look for used log facilities in
/etc/syslog.conf

But in the end nothing hinders an application developer from logging anywhere they deem appropiate, of course required permissions assumed.
So you need to consult the documentation of the various applications to be sure.

[Stoichkov]

Thank you very much.

I hope help you one time.
CU. :-D