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# 1  
Old 11-26-2010
Access to the /var/adm/syslog
Hi
I have an Active passive HACMP cluster
Everyday I need to come and give read only access to other users to the syslog file using [chmod o+r syslog*] in both the nodes.
Is there any way that this can be automated in such a way that the other users always have read access to the syslog files.

Code:
root@cbspsdb01 [/var/adm] #ls -l | grep -i syslog
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system       595619 Nov 26 08:17 syslog
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system     17227351 Nov 26 08:17 syslog.0
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system     10000523 Nov 16 03:01 syslog.1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system     10000009 Nov 16 01:58 syslog.11
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system     10000187 Nov 16 01:52 syslog.12
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system     10000560 Nov 16 02:55 syslog.2

========================================================================

Code:
root@cbspsdb02 [/var/adm] #ls -l | grep -i syslog
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system      2198909 Nov 26 08:15 syslog
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system     10000259 Nov 26 00:43 syslog.0
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system     10000169 Nov 23 12:50 syslog.1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system     10000387 Nov 23 12:46 syslog.2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     system     10000100 Nov 22 22:25 syslog.3

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Mod Comment edit by bakunin: please use CODE-tags when posting code, console output and the like. Thank you.
Last edited by bakunin; 11-26-2010 at 09:29 AM..
# 2  
Old 11-26-2010
You could consider scanning the files for obvious errors and emailing the users a nice report. A couple times a day I scan the syslog files and email a report like (my cut and paste didn't quite work):

Code:
AIX syslog errors

Current date and time: Thu Nov 25 15:00:14 CST  2010
Hostname: ms
Syslog errors since: Nov 25 14:00:19

/var/adm/syslog/critical.log errors:
Nov 25 14:17:40 unxm1_sw su: BAD SU from xxxxx to xxxxx at /dev/pts/5
 
/var/adm/syslog/errmsgs.log errors:
/var/adm/syslog/auth.log errors:
/var/adm/syslog/mail.log errors:
/var/adm/syslog/mail.debug.log errors:
/var/adm/syslog/daemon.log errors:
/var/adm/syslog/user.log errors:
/var/adm/syslog/ipsec.log errors:
/var/adm/syslog/daemon.debug.log errors:

Nov 25 14:41:21 xx xntpd[372934]: synchronisation lost
Nov 25 14:46:41 xx xntpd[372934]: synchronized to 192.168.122.76, stratum=3
Nov 25 14:41:21 xx xntpd[372934]: time reset (step) -0.202493 s

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment edit by bakunin: please use CODE-tags when posting code, terminal output or the like. Thank you.
Last edited by bakunin; 11-26-2010 at 09:37 AM..
# 3  
Old 11-26-2010
Probably this is because of your syslog configuration, which is located in "/etc/syslog.conf".

If this doesn't work and as a last resort you could set up a cron job for root, which sets the right permissions to all the log files.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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# 4  
Old 11-28-2010
Access to the /var/adm/syslog
Hi

This is solved after adding the below cron job to root user:
Code:
0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * chmod o+r /var/adm/syslog*

Last edited by Scott; 11-28-2010 at 07:30 AM.. Reason: Code tags
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