how to locate syslog on AIX machine

Question

I have a machine that does not have the syslog in the usual place. How would I go about locating it?

Answer 1

Start with:

man syslogd

and go from there.

Or are you saying that /etc/syslog.conf is not there.

If it is there, it should be able to tell you where all the log files are. If it's not there, you need to find out how syslogd was run, either:

• by looking at its entry from ps; or
• looking at the /etc/rc.d entry that started it.