Syslog
Hi,
I'm trying to set up 3.6 SP3 to log through syslog.
I've found the following broker properties, and have set them up in the instance's "config.properties" file, and restarted the broker:
imq.log.syslog.logconsole=true
imq.log.syslog.logpid=true
imq.log.syslog.output=ALL
imq.log.syslog.facility=LOG_LOCAL0
But I get nothing sent by MQ to the local syslogd daemon.
Sys'logging is properly configured and works fine (tested with the logger command).
Is there another property to set that I've missed ?
Thanks for your help.
Regards.
--
Laurent
[701 byte] By [
TiT] at [2007-11-14]
My /etc/syslog.conf is the initial Solaris one, with a few lines added for MQ:
#ident "@(#)syslog.conf1.598/12/14 SMI"/* SunOS 5.0 */
#
# Copyright (c) 1991-1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
# syslog configuration file.
#
# This file is processed by m4 so be careful to quote (`') names
# that match m4 reserved words. Also, within ifdef's, arguments
# containing commas must be quoted.
#
*.err;kern.notice;auth.notice/dev/sysmsg
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit/var/adm/messages
*.alert;kern.err;daemon.err operator
*.alertroot
*.emerg*
# if a non-loghost machine chooses to have authentication messages
# sent to the loghost machine, un-comment out the following line:
#auth.noticeifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/authlog, @loghost)
mail.debug ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/syslog, @loghost)
#
# non-loghost machines will use the following lines to cause "user"
# log messages to be logged locally.
#
ifdef(`LOGHOST', ,
user.err/dev/sysmsg
user.err/var/adm/messages
user.alert `root, operator'
user.emerg *
)
############################################################################### #
#
# Sun Message Queue Log Management
#
# local0.debug@loghost
local0.debug/tmp/syslog.local0.log
############################################################################### #
And now, for the 'logger' command:
# logger -p local0.info -t TEST_MQ "Logging using logger command"
# tail -1 /tmp/syslog.local0.log
Aug 22 09:35:40 bmqsa TEST_MQ: [ID 702911 local0.info] Logging using logger command
Important point: if I truss the syslogd process while MQ is supposed to log (which it does in regular files, ie. /var/opt/imq/instances/<instance>/log/log.txt), I don't see anything happen (ie. syslogd does not receive any request from MQ).
This last point makes it pretty clear to me that the problem is not within syslogd or its config, but rather about the MQ framework and its logging facilities.
I am really puzzled.
Any help/hint greatly appreciated.
TiT at 2007-7-7 >
You've uncovered a bug for us which causes all messages in the MQ broker to log as
"daemon.*". I've filed a bug on this (bug 6462576). Apparently, setting
imq.log.syslog.facility=LOG_LOCAL0
has no effect. The messages all log as LOG_DAEMON.
So, the workaround for now is to change your syslog.conf to
daemon.debug/tmp/messages
daemon.warning /tmp/messages
daemon.info/tmp/messages
Thanks.
