Re: {bb} logadm : /var/log/messages is empty

You can also set the CHKMSGLEN variable to FALSE in the 
bbc/etc/bbdef-client.sh script to tell BB not to check the size of the 
messages file.  The default value is TRUE.

Tom

Robert Sigillito wrote:
> Josephine,
> 
> The easiest way I found was to put the following line in root's crontab:
> 
> /usr/bin/logger -p alert "Syslog Rotated"
> 
> bob
> 
> 
> Josephine Tsikoudaki wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running bb client in Solaris 9 and i am using logadm to rotate 
>> log files
>> The problem is that I get an alert every time the file is being 
>> rotated for as long as it is empty.
>>
>> I would like to avoid this alarms without disabling the msg check
>>
>> While searching in the bb archives I found a similar problem that was 
>> solved by adding a line to the newsyslog file, so every time the file 
>> rotates, a line is added and the file is not empty...
>>
>> Is there any way to do this (or something similar) using logadm?
>>
>> Thank you all in advance
>>
>> josephine
>>
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