console and syslog

[Ronald S. Woan]

In article <1990Nov28.205804.13640 at odi.com>, benson at odi.com (Benson I.
Margulies) writes:
Benson> On 4.3-ish systems, if one wants a daemon to, say, announce
Benson> its arrival, one can call syslog with suitable arguments and
Benson> expect a message to (a) appear on the console and (b) get
Benson> logged. On several popular workstations, its typical for the
Benson> user to have a window that serves as the console in which such
Benson> messages appear.

Benson> Well, what's the AIX 3.1 story? putting it the error log isn't
Benson> very helpful, since you have to go looking to see it. And I've
Benson> never seen a console-esque message on my rs6000. The default
Benson> syslog.conf in /etc has NO LINES, so I presume IBM software
Benson> isn't using syslog.

You presume wrong. I don't know about your machine, but mine has a
nice template /etc/syslog.conf file. GOLD Release with 3001 update...
Why don't you just copy over one from one of your other systems.

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