benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) (11/29/90)
On 4.3-ish systems, if one wants a daemon to, say, announce its arrival, one can call syslog with suitable arguments and expect a message to (a) appear on the console and (b) get logged. On several popular workstations, its typical for the user to have a window that serves as the console in which such messages appear. Well, what's the AIX 3.1 story? putting it the error log isn't very helpful, since you have to go looking to see it. And I've never seen a console-esque message on my rs6000. The default syslog.conf in /etc has NO LINES, so I presume IBM software isn't using syslog. Anyone know how one is supposed to dispose of log messages? -- Benson I. Margulies
ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan) (11/30/90)
In article <1990Nov28.205804.13640@odi.com>, benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes: Benson> On 4.3-ish systems, if one wants a daemon to, say, announce Benson> its arrival, one can call syslog with suitable arguments and Benson> expect a message to (a) appear on the console and (b) get Benson> logged. On several popular workstations, its typical for the Benson> user to have a window that serves as the console in which such Benson> messages appear. Benson> Well, what's the AIX 3.1 story? putting it the error log isn't Benson> very helpful, since you have to go looking to see it. And I've Benson> never seen a console-esque message on my rs6000. The default Benson> syslog.conf in /etc has NO LINES, so I presume IBM software Benson> isn't using syslog. You presume wrong. I don't know about your machine, but mine has a nice template /etc/syslog.conf file. GOLD Release with 3001 update... Why don't you just copy over one from one of your other systems. +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@peyote.cactus.org or woan%austin@iinus1.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +
benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) (12/01/90)
I only have one RS/6000, GOLD (i guess) + 3001, + 3002, and all the lines in /etc/syslog.conf are commented out. I have to presume that all of my customers will have the same experience, and that someone at your site improved yours. -- Benson I. Margulies
ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan/2100000) (12/04/90)
In article <1990Dec1.132111.14588@odi.com>, benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) writes: Benson> I only have one RS/6000, GOLD (i guess) + 3001, + 3002, and Benson> all the lines in /etc/syslog.conf are commented out. Benson> I have to presume that all of my customers will have the same Benson> experience, and that someone at your site improved yours. Commented out is not the same as a zero length file as you indicated in your previous post. Yes, I started out with the same file and uncommented the lines and added some, and it seems to work just fine. If you think that default should be something, call it into IBM as a bug... I haven't installed a non-IBM machine lately (two years), so I can't remember what most manufacturers default to. +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@peyote.cactus.org or woan%austin@iinus1.ibm.com + + other email addresses Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +