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Old 05-24-2005
Append error message to the log
In my unix system , I chceck that there are error message append to the /var/adm/syslog . But I also found that part of these message will pop to my login session ( I use telent to login to server ) , I also check the /var/mail/my_loginid is empty , could suggest how can I forbid the message pop to my login session and append these messages to /var/mail/my_loginid ? thx
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Old 05-24-2005
syslog
Check your syslog.conf config.

If on solaris /etc/syslog.conf you prob have an entry that is logging messages to .

You can also set it up in syslog to log the errors you want to the file you want

man syslog.conf

you will need to kill -HUP syslogd
Last edited by plimpix; 05-24-2005 at 11:06 AM.. Reason: update
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