How to Configure / enable AIX Syslog

Step - 1

Using an appropriate editor, modify the /etc/syslog.conf file to contain the following line:

Here are different examples:

*.info   /var/log/syslog.log       rotate size 1m files 10

or

*.info   /root/syslog/syslog.out     rotate compress time 1d files 15

Or

auth.info   /var/log/syslog.log    rotate size 1m files 10

or

auth.info @syslog01servername

or

auth.info @tripwireservername

Where syslog01servername is windows syslog server.

Note:    where /var/log/syslog.log is the location and name of the Syslog file. The Syslog file is rotated when it becomes larger than 1 megabyte (MB) and the number of rotated files is limited to 10.

Note:    Use the TAB key to separate priority, destination, and rotation parameters. Spaces do not work.

Step – 2

Using touch command create an empty # touch /var/log/syslog.log ⤶

At a command prompt, refresh the syslog daemons, enter

# lssrc –a |grep syslogd ⤶

# refresh -s syslogd ⤶

root@nimserver(root/syslog)#ls -ltr

total 656

-rw-r--r--    1 root     system        79213 Mar 20 17:40 syslog.out.5.Z

-rw-r--r--    1 root     system        76309 Mar 21 17:40 syslog.out.4.Z

-rw-r--r--    1 root     system        74531 Mar 22 17:40 syslog.out.3.Z

-rw-r--r--    1 root     system        74549 Mar 23 17:40 syslog.out.2.Z

-rw-r--r--    1 root     system        72031 Mar 24 17:41 syslog.out.1.Z

-rw-r--r--    1 root     system        74717 Mar 25 17:41 syslog.out.0.Z

-rw-r--r--    1 root     system         3008 Mar 26 10:43 syslog.out

root@nimserver(root/syslog)#