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Operating Systems HP-UX HP-UX how to get all of the syslog Post 302681411 by jim mcnamara on Friday 3rd of August 2012 11:09:10 AM

08-03-2012

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syslog.log is a file. It gets rotated out through a sequence of names, if log rotation has been set up (I made these names up because I do not know what your sysadmin did):

Code:

syslog.log is the current file
syslog.0  
syslog.1
syslog.....syslog.n

I do not know how your sysadmin set up log rotatation. Plus the sysadmin can specify that syslog is named something else. If you have no rotation or toher setups the syslog.log file gets overwritten at bootup. And so it is usually really large.

What is your problem, do you get an error? Unless your sysadmin is really paranoid, all of those logs should be readable. Please post the command you used and the output or error.

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syslog

SYSLOG(8)                                                         System Logging                                                         SYSLOG(8)

NAME

       syslog-ng, syslogd

DESCRIPTION

       There are different syslog daemon implementations supported as the system's syslog service, currently syslogd, syslog-ng and rsyslogd

       The  first  installed daemon activates itself for the syslog service. Starting with openSUSE-11.2, it is rsyslogd, before it was syslog-ng.
       But this depends on the software selection during the installation.

       The name of the daemon used as syslog service is specified in the
       SYSLOG_DAEMON variable in /etc/sysconfig/syslog.

       The yast2 sysconfig module provides a comfortable way to switch to another installed daemon and restart the service.

       The /etc/init.d/syslog init script is able to handle all supported daemons.

BUGS

       Please report bugs at <http://www.suse.de/feedback>

AUTHOR

       Juergen Weigert <jw@novell.com>
       Marius Tomaschewski <mt@novell.com>

SEE ALSO

       sysklogd(8) syslogd(8) syslog.conf(5) syslog-ng(8) syslog-ng.conf(5) rsyslogd(8) rsyslog.conf(5)

syslog                                                               May 2008                                                            SYSLOG(8)