If you get a message like this:
Jan 21 13:42:38 foobar syslogd: /var/log/authlog : no such file or directory
But you are sure the file exists and it have the correct permissions:
# example for Solaris 9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 8,0K 21. Jan 13:51 /var/log/authlog
Then you perhaps have a trailing whitespace after /var/log/authlog in the /etc/syslog.conf.
Note: Use TAB to separate log components from log file names in Solaris. Because spaces do not work.
Posted by Kim Klotz to makandra dev (2013-01-21 13:05)