Is there a way to get extended/verbose error/diagnostics messages from
your Sun/Solaris8 system. I want more than what is in my messages log
now. I want more than prtdiag.

Thanks

In article <vk7lepnbegav44@news.supernews.com>, JB <nospam@doineed.com> wrote:
>Is there a way to get extended/verbose error/diagnostics messages from
>your Sun/Solaris8 system. I want more than what is in my messages log
>now. I want more than prtdiag.

Every application or kernel module programmer decides independently what
error or log messages they wish to produce.

You may be able to get *more* log messages by reducing the severity levels
in some of your syslog.conf entries. For instance, daemon.info instead of
daemon.notice will produce log messages for many routine activities. But
it won't increase the detail in existing log messages.

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Approximately 8/20/03 13:11, JB uttered for posterity:

> Is there a way to get extended/verbose error/diagnostics messages from
> your Sun/Solaris8 system. I want more than what is in my messages log
> now. I want more than prtdiag.

Write a message parser.

JB wrote:
> Is there a way to get extended/verbose error/diagnostics messages from
> your Sun/Solaris8 system. I want more than what is in my messages log
> now. I want more than prtdiag.
>
> Thanks
>

Extended Diagnoistics is usually Application dependant.

there is a zillion way to get logs and diagonstics out of
sendmail as an example of one subsystem.

sendmail -bt sendmail -dn.nn


One good way to see wats going on is to learn all about
truss(1m) " trace Unix systemcalls & Signals "

Syslog it self can be set up to catch
notices warnings errors and panics.
Study the syslog.conf(4) manual.

A.S.O

There is no singel switch to throw to get more
diagnostics. all the people that developed code for UNIX
did put in diagnostics in thier on way.

//Lars



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