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

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj@umdnj.edu>]

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My method is adding mark.debug to syslog.conf on the /var/adm/messages
line. It will write a --MARK-- every once in awhile to the syslog,
helpful for other reasons too (the machine crashed but the last thing it
wrote was several hours prior, etc.)

Josephine Tsikoudaki wrote:
> 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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