Logging server start/stop to syslog?

Question

Hi All!
I have spent all day on this and I am ripping my hair out!
Using Solaris 10 (update 5) and SMF I am trying to get the same start/stop information that is logged to /var/svc/log/... to output via syslog. According to the man page for svc.startd
The   supported   message
options include quiet, verbose,  and  debug.  The  quiet
option  sends  error  messages  requiring administrative
intervention to the  console,  syslog  and  svc.startd's
global  logfile. The verbose option sends error messages
requiring administrative intervention  to  the  console,
syslog  and svc.startd's global logfile, and information
about errors which do not require administrative  inter-
vention to svc.startd's global logfile.
and you can change the logging options by the following:
# /usr/sbin/svccfg -s system/svc/restarter:default
svc:/system/svc/restarter:default> addpg options application
svc:/system/svc/restarter:default> setprop options/logging = \
astring: verbose
svc:/system/svc/restarter:default> exit
This request will take effect on the next restart of
svc.startd.Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to log information +"about errors which do not require administrative intervention"+ to anywhere other than the global logfile ...
Any support here would be appreciated ...
Rudolf

Answer 1

Unfortunately there does not seem to be a way to log information "about errors which do not require administrative intervention" to anywhere other than the global logfile ...There is since the set of errors which do not require admin intervention is null. Only LOG_WARNING, LOG_NOTICE, LOG_INFO and LOG_DEBUG are not sent - by definition, there are no errors. You are correct that there's no clean way of getting everything logged to the local file to go to syslog, though looking at the source, it looks like you might be able to get the same effect if you cause the open to the log file to fail. You could try by creating a directory with the name of the log file....
-r