December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
9h 3m
English
book
Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters
by Dino Quintero, Prabhakar Attaluri, Tomas Baublys, Xinghong He, Chin Yau Lee, Francois Thomas
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4.3. Event logging - enterprise event log
Event Logging or evlog is a set of tools that implements an enterprise-level event logging facility, according the POSIX draft standard. evlog stores event records in binary and uses two daemons: evlogd and evlogrmtd. The evlogd daemon is used to log the events, and evlogrmtd is for clients to send remote logs for the evlog server.
The evlog installable RPM is located inside the first CD1 in the directory suse/RPMS/ppc/.
1. | Install the evlog-1.5.3-36.rpm:
# rpm -i evlog-1.5.3-36.rpm
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2. | Create an empty file inside /var/log/evlog/ called eventlog:
# touch /var/log/evlog/eventlog
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3. | Start evlog services:
# /etc/init.d/evlog start
# /sbin/slog_fwd ... |