syslogd not logging for 4.0.3

Jonathan Corbet corbet at stout.ucar.edu
Fri Aug 18 02:25:18 AEST 1989


>We upgraded to SunOS 4.0.3 14 July 89 and since that time syslogd has not
>logged a single message. I called Sun several times on this and they have
>yet to respond. Has anyone experienced a similar problem after a 4.0.3
>upgrade. Somewhat perplexed... *-[:-(

I had this same problem, and I finally got an answer out of Sun for it.
The trick is to remove the line:

	define (LOGHOST, 1)

from /etc/syslogd.conf -- yes, the same one you had to put in for 4.0 to
solve the infinite loop problem.  I don't think this is in the release
notes -- I didn't see it.

-- 
Jonathan Corbet
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
corbet at stout.ucar.edu



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