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Empty syslogs on Solaris



On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, John Abreau wrote:

> I'm finding that syslogd doesn't seem to be working right on any of the
> Solaris machines at work. /var/adm/messages comes up empty most of the
> time; it appears that the only things ever to get logged are the boot-time
> messages from dmesg. Oh, and sendmail logs correctly to /var/log/syslog.

This smells like a file permissions problem to me, but I'm not a Solaris
person.  Don't forget that some apps (like Sendmail and Majordomo) won't
work if the permissions are TOO LAX.  I don't know if syslogd does the
same thing.

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