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Old 01-08-2004
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Re: system messages log (Sun and AIX)

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Originally posted by VeroL
As /var/adm/messages is empty on my machine, i need help.
See if syslogd process is running...
Both messages and syslog contains system messages, you define them at /etc/syslog.conf.

All kind of unix has a ( plain text ) system messages log file, it's location depends on the system ( do man syslog ).
The syslog files are text files.