Transfer the logs being thrown into /var/log/messages into another file example /var/log/volumelog
I have been searching and reading about syslog. I would like to know how to Transfer the logs being thrown into /var/log/messages into another file example /var/log/volumelog.
I'm using RHEL and my var/log/messages file is filled with "FTP session opened/closed" lines that happen all day:
Aug 2 04:04:38 web proftpd: 74.125.56.10 (142.231.76.249) - FTP session closed.
Aug 2 04:05:11 web proftpd: 74.125.56.10 (142.231.88.123) - FTP session opened.Is this normal? We... (2 Replies)
hi sirs
can u tell the difference between /var/log/syslogs and /var/adm/messages
in my working place i am having two servers.
in one servers messages file is empty and syslog file is going on increasing..
and in another servers message file is going on increasing but syslog file is... (2 Replies)
The /var/adm/messages in Solaris seem to log more system messages/errors compared to /var/log/messages in Linux.
I checked the log level in Linux and they seem OK.
Is there any other log file that contains the messages or is it just that Linux doesn't log great many things? (2 Replies)
How can view log messages between two time frame from /var/log/message or any type of log files.
when logfiles are very big and especially many messages with in few minutes, I would like to display log messages between 5 minute interval.
Could you pls give me the command? (1 Reply)
The /var/log/messages folder grows exponentially - in 3 hours it went up from 70 K to 6GB.
I have an application and it keeps writing such logs at very high speed.
Which of the following feature has to be disabled?
The entry in syslog.config is shown below
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i am working with embedded system -Dell DCS management sub system. my question is as below:
currently we are using linux kernel 2.6.30 build and we have a kernel logs stored to the /var/log/messages path. now we have to transfer all this logs to the specified SNMP target as a part of SNMP... (4 Replies)
Below is my script to log all the command input by any user to /var/log/messages. But I cant achieve the desired output that i want. PLease see below.
function log2syslog
{
declare COMMAND
COMMAND=$(fc -ln -0)
logger -p local1.notice -t bash -i -- "$USER:$COMMAND"
}
trap... (12 Replies)
I am getting a lot of message as follows in /var/log/message files as follows.
messages.1:559:May 4 20:01:56 SERVER2 kernel: session_stat: sync=0 async=33 aretr=0
messages.1:560:May 4 20:02:42 SERVER2 kernel: session_stat: dev=fd:5 state=6 blksize=4096 mmapsize=262144
messages.1:561:May 4... (2 Replies)