syslog on sun{3,386i,4}

[Ephraim Silverberg]

In Volume 8, Issue 61, message 16 of 18, Adam Margulies writes:
>
> syslog seems to like to take over a system from time to time and eat 80%
> of the cpu time. It writes nothing to /usr/adm/messages so I can't tell if
> it is doing it for good REASON or anything.  syslog just hates me.
>
> how can i free myself from it, other than turning it off all together?

If you are running SunOS 4.0.1, you must put the line

define(LOGHOST,1)

in your server's /etc/syslog.conf file.  Remember to remove this line when
you upgrade to SunOS 4.0.3.

Ephraim Silverberg
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