By default, Sybase IQ logs messages to the “user” syslog facility on UNIX. On most UNIX systems, the user syslog facility is not logged, however, on HP-UX systems, the default syslog configuration places the messages sent to the user facility in the syslog files. As a result, these files may fill up, causing the file system on which they reside to become full.
You can solve this problem in either of two ways:
1. Turn off the user facility in syslog.conf, or
2. Use the -s IQ server switch to redirect the server's syslog output to a different facility, and turn off that different facility.
Method 1:
The following example shows how you might edit the syslog.conf file on an HP-UX system.
Original syslog.conf file
# @(#) $Revision: 74.1 $
# syslogd configuration file.
#
# See syslogd(1M) for information about the format of this file.
#
mail.debug /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
*.info;mail.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
*.alert /dev/console
*.alert root
*.emerg *
syslog.conf file after modification
# @(#) $Revision: 74.1 $
#
# syslogd configuration file.
#
# See syslogd(1M) for information about the format of this file.
#
mail.debug /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
*.info;mail.none;user.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
*.alert;user.none /dev/console
*.alert;user.none root
*.emerg;user.none *
See UNIX man pages syslogd(1) and syslog(1) for more information.
