Very Computer

Hey there,

Noticed a strange thing on Solaris 9 and wondered what was going on with
it, if anything.  My three installations of Sol 9 each have
/etc/cron.d/logchecker running out of the root crontab file.  But alas,
there's no /etc/cron.d/logchecker script on the box!!!  It's on my Sol 8
machines, but not Sol 9.  Weird.  I can certainly just copy it over, but
it seems kinda lame on Sun's part. . .

Jen

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 > Hey there,
 >
 > Noticed a strange thing on Solaris 9 and wondered what was going on
 > with it, if anything.  My three installations of Sol 9 each have
 > /etc/cron.d/logchecker running out of the root crontab file.

Odd.  That shouldn't be there - the logchecker functionality has been
replaced by logadm. On a Solaris 9 box the root crontab entry is

10 3 * * * /usr/sbin/logadm

I wonder if this system has been upgraded from Solaris 8 and somebody
has blindly replaced the root crontab entry with one from a Solaris 8
box. I *thought* the Solaris upgrade process did the right thing here
(though IMBW)...

 > But alas, there's no /etc/cron.d/logchecker script on the box!!!

Correct,  See /etc/logadm.conf

 > It's on my Sol 8 machines, but not Sol 9.  Weird.  I can certainly
 > just copy it over, but it seems kinda lame on Sun's part. . .

What does? Agreed, not leaving cron.d/logchecker around but consisting
solely of a comment like this:

# NOTE: This script is no longer used -- see logadm(1M)

does seem a pity (the comment above is from /usr/lib/newsyslog, by the
way, which has also been superceded by logadm).

--
Tony

Thanks for the info!  I think our root crontab file is indeed a relic of
a forgotten automated in-house process which I am now going to fix.

Thanks again!

Jen

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"I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days."

                                                --Daniel Boone