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1. Shell Programming and Scripting
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.
tail -f /var/log/messages
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
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"
}
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3. SuSE
How are you?
SUSE V10 and 11.
In /var/log/messages I see these lines in some servers. I'd like to know what causes these errors and how to fix them.
Thank you,
error: PAM: Authentication failure for root from XXXXXXXX
Did not receive identification string from XXXXXXX
Invalid user suse-gm... (2 Replies)
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4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
i want to log rotate the /var/adm/messages file after reaching the specified limit and delete those logs. how do i do that.
i you solaris 10 OS ,Please help me in doing the same.... (2 Replies)
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5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Whenever a user uses su I get the following error messages in /var/log/messages:
Nov 23 04:24:55 <REMOVED> abrt: saved core dump of pid 26141 (/usr/libexec/fprintd) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-1322018695-26141.new/coredump (753664 bytes)
Nov 23 04:24:55 <REMOVED> abrtd: Directory... (3 Replies)
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6. Shell Programming and Scripting
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)
Discussion started by: johnveslin
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I want to view the content of /etc/log..I logged in as root and tried to open /etc/log using the command "gedit /etc/log" but didn't work out.How can i go about it?Thanks in advance.. (1 Reply)
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8. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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)
Discussion started by: gomes1333
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
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)
Discussion started by: gaspol
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Which programm, deamon or script is responsible for filling the file /var/log/messages ? (1 Reply)
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