My question was:
Dear alpha-osf-managers,
on a system without a console printer, I would like to have the
option to completely review the console messages.
If I am right, these messages are not recorded in their entirety
in files like /var/adm/messages.
There were the following three answers:
1.) Chris H. Ruhnke, (Ruhnke_at_US.ibm.com)
The only way I know of guaranteed logging of console message is
the use of a console manager system such as PolyCenter Console
manager.
2.) Tony Burke (tburke_at_davidjones.com.au)
I have a very good solution that involves sending the serial data
over IP to a central monitoring host.
To do this, you will need a good terminal server, another host
with Perl installed.
If you would like to know more, please sent me a note.
3.) Simon Millard (Simon.Millard_at_barclays.co.uk)
If you look in the file /etc/syslog.conf, this will tell you what
events are logged where. You add you own destinations, e.g. to
send auth files to a separate file, add the line auth.notice
/usr/adm/auth_entry
Restart the syslogd daemon and entries should start going to that
file as well.
If you ensure that you have read access to the file as a normal
user, you can have a console anywhere by doing a tail -f
<filename>
I already knew the diverse log files the system is writing to, but there
are still console messages that -by default- are recorded nowhere, e.g.
if you have an ORACLE startup script in /sbin/init.d, its output cannot
be "scrolled back".
Probably we will attach an old PC recording serial console data via
Telix or the like.
Thanks for the contributions,
Thomas Meyer, EDV-Systemadministrator
email: Thomas.Meyer_at_dla-marbach.de
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Received on Wed Jan 13 1999 - 08:03:44 NZDT