Thank you everybody for your time and effort to help me. I believe that I now get it.
Mostly thank you bakunin, for the clarification of how syslog operates. That was also my estimation of how this daemon works, but after your comment I get it.
As a side-note, I think that the best way to continue with my assessment, as far as syslog is concerned, is to check for some critical services (e.g. login) in which message category they store what kind of messages.
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If you want to know what applications are posting some 'wildcard' entries can help with that.
Below I have commented out all applications at 'debug' level - which is everything. Instead I collect everything at info level - except for local4 (which is used by ipsec logging) - I leave that one at debug level.
Looking at the combined log you can see which facility is concerned, as well as the severity of the message. From this you can decide how to accommodate different facilities in separate files and/or with differing severity.
Finally, an easy way to know how syslog is currently running is the command
With, e.g., the following result
Hi everyone,
I am trying to configure AIX 6.1 using syslogd to send syslog event to syslog server configured on RHEL. However, RHEL never receives the events.
I have tried to redirect the syslog event on AIX to a local file and successful. Only forwarding to remote server fails.
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Dear all experts,
I would like to know where can I find the hostname located as when I receive the syslog, I can only see as below : (showing in localhost instead of the hostname)
Feb 6 15:31:31 localhost syslog:info syslogd: restart
Feb 6 15:31:50 localhost syslog:info syslogd: restart
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Hello,
Could you please check the below errors. I found these errors in AIX LPAR syslogs.
auth|security:err|error sshd error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
daemon:err|error syslog: slp: 0660-059 Impossible to get local interface for distant address 10.x.x.x. errno... (2 Replies)
How could we derive teh Next month in MON-RR format from current date ie sysdate in UNI AIX sheel script.I coould get a command but i supports only inLinux susse andnotin AIX.
I need for Unix AIX.Pls Help.
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Due to a project I'm currently tasked with I'm spending my time trying to find a way to forward the syslog to a remote, in this case Red Hat, server and squeezing it into a SQL DB.
Rsyslog is doing this job quite nicely for most of our test-servers, but I couldn't find any reliable information on... (1 Reply)
Hi,
i'm trying to configure /etc/syslog.conf for log user access.
In debian i add:
auth,authpriv.* @serverName
I don't know the correct Aix syntax for syslog :(
My @serverName get the log successfully..
I need to log correct/incorrect login attempts.
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We have had an issue where the mail file filled up. Is there a setting in sendmail.cf to automatically remove old emails? Say after 14 days. If not is there any way automatically to delete older mail files?? (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I am trying to get the authentication logs of FTP,Telnet,SSH,inetd from the syslog file. But my output for every type of authentications - success & failure keep differing everytime i view them.
The output does not show the priority code (emerg, or 0, in any case). How do I get the... (0 Replies)
Hello,
I need a few explanation about the log files for system messages:
/var/adm/messages and
/var/log/syslog.
As /var/adm/messages is empty on my machine, i need help.
First, i would like to know what the difference between these 2 files is? Do they contain different kinds of system... (3 Replies)