Sun Microsystems Sun Workstation 100U System Manager's Manual page 258

SYSLOG(8)
MAINTENANCE COMMANDS
SYSLOG(8)
3/usr/adm/critical
eric
kridle
kalash
logs all messages or priority 5 or higher onto the system console, including timing marks every 20
minutes; all messages of priority 8 or higher into the file /u8r/ 8pool/ adm/ 81/8100; and all messages
or priority 3 or higher into /u8r/adm/critical. The users 'eric', 'kridle', and 'kalash' will be
informed on any subalert messages.
OPTIONS
FILES
BUGS
-m N Set the mark interval to N (default 20 minutes).
-'name
Speciry an alternate configuration file.
-d Turn on debugging (if compiled in).
-p port Port number where 81/810g listens for incoming datagrams. The derault port is defined in
the 'syslog/udp' entry in the / etc/ 8ervice8 file.
To bring 81/alOg down
t
it should be sent a terminate signal. It logs that it is going down and then
waits approximately 10 seconds for any additional messages to come in.
There are some special messages that cause control functions.
'<*>N'
sets the default message
priority to N.
'<$>'
causes 81/8101 to reconfigure (equivalent to a hangup signal). This can be
used in a shell file run automatically early in the morning to truncate the log.
51J810g creates the file /etc/syslog.pid if possible containing a single line with its process ide This
can be used to kill or reconfigure 81/810g.
/etc/hosts - the hosts file
/etc/syslog.conr -- the configuration file
/etc/syslog.pid - the process id
letc/services - to find the 81/810g server's port number.
LOG_ALERT and LOG_SALERT messages should only be allowed to privileged programs.
Actually, 81/810g is not clever enough to deal with kernel error messages in the current implemen-
tation.
SEE ALSO
syslog(3), kill(2)
Sun Release 1.1
Last change: 16 February 1984
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