Re: {bb} logadm : /var/log/messages is empty

[Robert Sigillito <robert.sigillito@jhu.edu>]

Josephine,

The easiest way I found was to put the following line in root's crontab:

/usr/bin/logger -p alert "Syslog Rotated"

bob


Josephine Tsikoudaki wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running bb client in Solaris 9 and i am using logadm to rotate log 
> files
> The problem is that I get an alert every time the file is being rotated 
> for as long as it is empty.
>
> I would like to avoid this alarms without disabling the msg check
>
> While searching in the bb archives I found a similar problem that was 
> solved by adding a line to the newsyslog file, so every time the file 
> rotates, a line is added and the file is not empty...
>
> Is there any way to do this (or something similar) using logadm?
>
> Thank you all in advance
>
> josephine
>
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