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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting how to parse /etc/syslog.conf file Post 302524956 by catalint on Wednesday 25th of May 2011 07:40:13 AM
Old 05-25-2011
Hi,

We need to get from this config files ALL the paths to log files that configured , for example :
/var/adm/messages
/dev/sysmsg

Last edited by catalint; 05-25-2011 at 08:48 AM..
 

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sysmsg(7D)							      Devices								sysmsg(7D)

NAME
sysmsg - system message routing to console devices SYNOPSIS
/dev/sysmsg DESCRIPTION
The file /dev/sysmsg routes output to a variable set of console devices. Writes to /dev/sysmsg are always directed to the system console /dev/console, and are in addition directed to a set of auxiliary console devices managed by consadm(1M). Only root has permission to write to this device. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Stable | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
consadm(1M), syslogd(1M) , attributes(5), console(7D) SunOS 5.10 13 Oct 1998 sysmsg(7D)
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