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

[Josephine Tsikoudaki <jtsikoudaki@vivodi.gr>]

Hi

Since i don't want to disable the CHKMSGLEN I added the logger in 
crontab to be executed after logadm

I think it works! :-)

Thank you all for the help!

Josephine

Tom Schmidt wrote:
> You can also set the CHKMSGLEN variable to FALSE in the 
> bbc/etc/bbdef-client.sh script to tell BB not to check the size of the 
> messages file.  The default value is TRUE.
>
> Tom
>
> Robert Sigillito wrote:
> > 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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Josephine Tsikoudaki
Systems Administrator
IT Systems & Security Dept.
Vivodi Telecommunications S.A.
62a Ethnikis Antistaseos Str.
GR-15231, Chalandri, Athens, Greece
Tel: +30 2117503866
Fax: +30 2117509581


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