The syslog is frozen, we are using SunOS 5.10
Any inputs how to get it running ?
Hello,
Before we have a chance of being able to help you with this one, we're going to need some meaningful information about what the actual problem is. You say "The syslog is frozen". What, exactly, do you mean by that ? Do you mean that no more log entires are appearing your syslog files ? Do you mean that you cannot stop or start your syslog service ? Is it the case that local logging is working, but remote clients cannot log to the server (assuming we're actually talking about a syslog server, of course) ?
When seeking assistance, it always helps to provide as much information as you can. If you can describe the problem you're having in some detail, then we may be able to assist. Saying that something is "frozen" doesn't have any actual technical meaning, and therefore unfortunately doesn't tell us anything especially useful that we can go on.
Hey Drysdalk,
The syslog is not showing any logs i mean, it's stopped at a particular time. Mean while the application logs are also frozen which is gatherd by syslogs and put there.
I tried restarting the syslogs using svcadm but that was of no use.
Does the syslogd run?
If yes, does it have open syslog files?
pfiles `pgrep -x syslogd`
How is it listed in
svcs system-log
?
Hello,
In addition to the checks suggested by @MadeInGermany, you might want to check to see if your system is out of disk space. If one or more of your filesystems are at 100% utilisation, that could also potentially explain this, though there are various possible causes.