grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) (09/24/89)
We recently developed a problem with the dates in the syslog file becoming corrupted. It turns out that this was due to a Sun 4 which was running a very recent release of SunOS and which had 'mailhost' and 'loghost' specified on the /etc/hosts line for the Ultrix system. Apparently the new SunOS syslog formats are incompatible with the Ultrix syslog daemon, corrupting the daemon in un-enumerated, but obviously unpleasant ways. The SunOS kernel/release responsible: "SunOS Release 4.0.3c (GENERIC) #1: Thu May 25 17:17:12 PDT 1989" The obvious workaround is to redirect the mailhost and loghost entries to a compatible machine... I'm not filing an SPR, since the Suns really should have been logging to their fileserver, not to the Ultrix system. People desiring closer integration may want to keep an eye peeled. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)