syslog logs not to messages

From: Pavic, Aleksander (Aleksander.Pavic@telekom.de)
Date: Fri Jul 02 2004 - 06:28:01 EDT


Hi all,
we have an E3500 and two E420R, they have a strange Problem with syslog.

syslog.conf:
*.err;kern.notice;auth.notice;local7.none /dev/sysmsg
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit;local7.none
/var/adm/messages

*.alert;kern.err;daemon.err;local7.none operator
*.alert;local7.none root

*.emerg *

mail.debug ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/syslog,
@loghost)

ifdef(`LOGHOST', ,
user.err /dev/sysmsg
user.err /var/adm/messages
user.alert `root, operator'
user.emerg *
)

You can see that only local7.none is added.
syslogd writes permanent to /var/log/syslog but not to /var/adm/messages

We miss 4-7 days of logging in /etc/var/messages.0 and messages.1...

All machines run 5.8 Generic_117000-01.

Any Ideas?

greetz,
Aleks
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