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Operating Systems AIX /etc/syslog.conf file and warnings Post 302210237 by bakunin on Monday 30th of June 2008 11:15:57 AM
Old 06-30-2008
I have not tried this, it is not tested, but an idea you could pursue:

syslogd can send messages either to a file (this is the common case), to another host or to a users terminal. For instance: to send all mail and daemon messages of priority crit and above to user xxx enter the following line into /etc/syslog.conf:

Code:
mail,daemon.crit xxx

You could probably create an user account, have it run some script which waits for terminal input and does something according to the sort of input it receives. The create an entry in /etc/syslog.conf to have this user receive all the messages you want to track.

i don't know if you could specify several destinations so maybe your script will have to do the log writing syslog normally does by itself.

In any case i would be intereseted to hear your solution.

bakunin
 

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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)
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