[993] in Release_7.7_team
syslogd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jun 16 02:22:38 1997
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Cc: ops@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 02:22:31 EDT
Ops recently realized that we are not getting reboot syslogs for our
solaris machines logged centrally. This is particularly probalematic
for our servers, but it would also be nice if cluster machines logged
reboots. Based on some tests we have run, it appears that the sun
syslogd simply does not log the reboot messages, locally, remotely, or
otherwise. However, the athena syslogd seems to do so (although it
ends up with a somewhat garbled message, that may be what it is being
given. What are the possibilities of getting suns to run the
athenized syslogd?
Actually, while composing this, it occured to me that we might be able
to solve the problem by simply having the Athena rc script log
something at a level that will go to the remote logger. eg.:
/usr/bin/logger -p user.notice Yo, I am rebooting.
Ted, I have the feeling I'm forgetting somethign. Will this, in fact,
be sufficient for us?
Jonathon
