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Operating Systems Solaris no sshd log Post 302071032 by dsbeerf on Tuesday 11th of April 2006 02:24:13 PM
Old 04-11-2006
In MY /etc/syslog.conf, I have something telling the 'AUTH' messages where to 'go':

auth.info <tab><tab><tab> ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/authlog, @loghost)

If I do NOT have the machine 'loghost' defined on my network, AND I want all my 'logs' written locally,
I add an "alias" for 'THIS' machine as loghost in /etc/hosts.

If you have an entry in /etc/hosts for your machine that looks like this:

10.232.232.123 myhost.mydomain.com myhost

Then ADD 'loghost' to make the entry look like:

10.232.232.123 myhost.mydomain.com myhost loghost

THAT way, all your logs will stay on 'this' machine.

This should also work for you. Make SURE the 'whitespace' between columns are TABS, not 'spaces'.
There should be *NO* spaces between columns in /etc/syslog.conf.

Also, I do a:

touch /var/log/authlog

To make sure the file is there for syslog to write to, although I am NOT sure if this is necessary.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUSE

nislog

nislog(1M)                                                System Administration Commands                                                nislog(1M)

NAME

       nislog - display the contents of the NIS+ transaction log

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/nislog [-h num | -t num]  [-v] [directory...]

DESCRIPTION

       nislog  displays  the  contents of the NIS+ server transaction log on the standard output. This command can be used to track changes in the
       namespace. The /var/nis/trans.log file contains the transaction log maintained by the NIS+ server. When updates occur, they are  logged  to
       this  file  and  then  propagated  to replicas as log transactions.  When the log is checkpointed, updates that have been propagated to the
       replicas are removed.

       The nislog command can only be run on an NIS+ server by superuser. It displays the log entries for that server only.

       If directory is not specified, the entire log is searched. Otherwise, only those logs entries that correspond to the specified  directories
       are displayed.

OPTIONS

       -h num          Display num transactions from the ``head'' of the log. If the numeric parameter is  0, only the log header is displayed.

       -t num          Display  num transactions from the ``tail'' of the log. If the numeric parameter is  0, only the log header is displayed.

       -v              Verbose mode.

FILES

       /var/nis/trans.log      transaction log

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWnisu                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       nis+(1), rpc.nisd(1M), nisfiles(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

       NIS+  might  not  be  supported in future releases of the SolarisTM Operating Environment. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are
       available in the Solaris 9 operating environment. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.

SunOS 5.10                                                          12 Dec 2001                                                         nislog(1M)
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