How to enable syslog on AIX?

Question

I'm trying to enable syslog on AIX. I followed the instructions in this post but it didn't work.

This is my /etc/syslog.conf:

mail.debug      /var/log/mail.log   rotate size 500k files 10
kern.debug      /var/log/kern.log   rotate size 500k files 10
syslog.debug    /var/log/syslog.log rotate size 500k files 10
daemon.debug    /var/log/daemon.log rotate size 500k files 10
local2.debug    /var/log/sudo.log   rotate size 500k files 10

I executed this:

refresh -s syslogd

But nothing is showing up in /var/log

I'm on AIX 6.1.

Answer 1

Syslog files must exist before syslogd will write to them. You will need to touch (as root) the filenames you wish to use first.

touch /var/log/mail.log

touch /var/log/kern.log

...etc