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Operating Systems Solaris syslog Post 302087065 by csaunders on Tuesday 29th of August 2006 03:36:13 PM

08-29-2006

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well looks like my /etc/hosts is different then the box that is working, i didnt clarify myself earlier, bascially mail messages are not being sent to /var/log/syslog... its a zero length file. On the box that is not working loghost is not on the same line as the hostname of the machine. Which I think i did, because i beleive this leaves you open to a denial of service attack. I thought this allowed you to be a syslog server, and thus other machines could send you syslog messages... so in order to resolve this could i take out the loghost reference in /etc/syslog.conf?

mail.debug ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/syslog, @loghost)

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warn.conf

warn.conf(4)							   File Formats 						      warn.conf(4)

NAME

       warn.conf - Kerberos warning configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/krb5/warn.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The  warn.conf file contains configuration information specifying how users will be warned by the ktkt_warnd daemon about ticket expiration
       on a Kerberos client. Credential expiration warnings are sent, by means of syslog, to auth.notice. All other warning messages are  sent	to
       daemon.notice.

       Each  Kerberos  client host must have a warn.conf file in order for users on that host to get Kerberos warnings from the client. Entries in
       the warn.conf file must have the following format:

       principal syslog | terminal | mail time [email_address]

       principal       Specifies the principal name to be warned. The asterisk (*) wildcard can be used to specify groups of principals.

       syslog	       Sends the warnings to the system's syslog. Depending on the /etc/syslog.conf  file,  syslog  entries  are  written  to  the
		       /var/adm/messages file and/or displayed on the terminal.

       terminal        Sends the warnings to display on the terminal.

       mail	       Sends the warnings as email to the address specified by email_address.

       time	       Specifies  how  much  time before the TGT expires when a warning should be sent. The default time value is seconds, but you
		       can specify h (hours) and m (minutes) after the number to specify other time values.

       email_address   Specifies the email address at which to send the warnings. This field must be specified only with the mail field.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Specifying warnings

       The following warn.conf entry

       * syslog 5m

       specifies that warnings will be sent to the syslog five minutes before the expiration of the TGT for all principals. The form of  the  mes-
       sage is:

       jdb@ACME.COM: your kerberos credentials expire in 5 minutes

FILES

       /usr/lib/krb5/ktkt_warnd        Kerberos warning daemon

SEE ALSO

       ktkt_warnd(1M), syslog.conf(4), SEAM(5)

SunOS 5.10							    22 Apr 2003 						      warn.conf(4)