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Hi,

Some of the process execuating on our server time to time. Time of exeuation is not know in advance. That process is producing some of the messages on the screen. I want to redirect all the messages in one file as well as want all the message on the screen also. How i can do that ?

Please post OS information if the following does not help:

Look at /etc/syslog.conf and/or man syslogd. syslog.conf (or the equivalent file for your OS) controls what messages go where.

Since you want all messages to the console AND to a file, check first to see if this is already happening. Cat out the syslog.conf file and look for something like the following:


*.emerg;*.err;*.alert;*.crit;*.warning;*.notice;*.debug /var/adm/messages
*.emerg;*.err;*.alert;*.crit;*.warning;*.notice;*.debug /dev/console

If you do have this, then you just need to go look at the file to see that it is getting any messages. To see if it's working, attempt to su to root and put the wrong password. A message should show up in the messages file along with the console.
If you don't have this yet, edit the syslog.conf file (after saving a copy) and add the lines as you want. Restart syslogd. Check that it's working.

Make sure you read the man page. Your server may well be different than I am describing (I'm using Solaris as an example)

To send messages to another server (a syslog host which collects all messages from all servers) use the following:
*.emerg;*.err;*.alert;*.crit;*.warning;*.notice;*.debug @syslog1.mydomain.com

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I got the file syslog.conf. But how it work for one particular process. Like i have the process name "ccstart". What i have to do to get all the messages in the log file created by that process. But i also want all the messages related to that process only nothing else in that message file.

Regards,