VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

Error Messages

Conﬁguring Logging in the Startup Script

Chapter 666

To enable logging of console output to the ﬁle /var/adm/configd.log, edit the startup script

for vxconfigd as described in “Conﬁguring Logging in the Startup Script” on page 66 or

invoke vxconfigd under the C locale as shown here:

# vxconfigd [-x [1-9]] -x log

There are 9 possible levels of debug logging; 1 provides the least detail, and 9 the most.

To enable syslog logging of console output, specify the option -x syslog to vxconfigd as

shown here:

# vxconfigd [-x [1-9]] -x syslog

Messages with a priority higher than Debug are written to /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log,

and all other messages are written to /var/adm/configd.log.

If you do not specify a debug level, only Error, Fatal Error, Warning, and Notice messages are

logged. Debug messages are not logged.

Conﬁguring Logging in the Startup Script

To enable log ﬁle or syslog logging, you can edit the following portion of the

/sbin/init.d/vxvm-sysboot script that starts the VxVM conﬁguration daemon, vxconfigd:

# comment-out or uncomment any of the following lines to enable or

# disable the corresponding feature in vxconfigd.

#opts=”$opts -x syslog” # use syslog for console messages

#opts=”$opts -x log” # messages to vxconfigd.log

#opts=”$opts -x logfile=/foo/bar” # specify an alternate log file

#opts=”$opts -x timestamp” # timestamp console messages

# to turn on debugging console output, uncomment the following line.

# The debug level can be set higher for more output. The highest

# debug level is 9.

#debug=1 # enable debugging console output

Comment or uncomment the lines corresponding to the features that you want to be disabled

or enabled at startup. For example, the opts="$opts -x syslog" string is usually

uncommented so that vxconfigd uses syslog logging by default. Inserting a # character at

the beginning of the line turns off syslog logging for vxconfigd.