Installation guide

For information about administering the DECevent utility, see the
following Tru64 UNIX documentation:
• DECevent Translation and Reporting Guide
• dia
(8)
A new anlysis utility that supports recent processors only is provided in
Tru64 UNIX. Compaq Analyze is designated to be the replacement for
uerf in EV6–series processors. See the Compaq Analyze Installation Guide
for Compaq Tru64 UNIX which can be found on the Associated Products
CD-ROM. The Tru64 UNIX Installation Guide contains information on
installing associated products.
Note that the sys_check utility uses DECevent translation and reporting
tools to read system error files such as binary.errlog.saved. Refer to the
sys_check
(8) reference page for more information.
13.2 Configuring Event Logging
When you install your system, the default system and binary event-logging
configuration is used. You can change the default configuration by
modifying the configuration files. You can also modify the binary
event-logging configuration, if necessary.
To enable system and binary event-logging, the special files must exist and
the event-logging daemons must be running. Refer to Section 13.2.2 and
Section 13.2.3 for more information.
13.2.1 Editing the Configuration Files
If you do not want to use the default system or binary event-logging
configuration, edit the /etc/syslog.conf or /etc/binlog.conf
configuration file to specify how the system should log events. In the files,
you specify the facility, which is the source of a message or the part of the
system that generates a message; the priority, which is the message’s level
of severity; and the destination for messages.
The following sections describe how to edit the configuration files.
13.2.1.1 The syslog.conf File
If you want the syslogd daemon to use a configuration file other than the
default, you must specify the file name with the syslogd −f
config_file
command.
The following is an example of the default /etc/syslog.conf file:
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