Unable to recieve any logs from Sun machine....

Question

Hi,
I'm using Sun Solaris v10 and i have problem in receiving logs from sun machine. The syslog server is my windows which i want my sun machine to sends logs to (windows machine is ALIVE on default port 514).
I have edited the syslog.conf file as:-
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I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 't100'.
[Using open mode]
"/etc/syslog.conf" 42 lines, 1098 characters
#ident  "@(#)syslog.conf        1.5     98/12/14 SMI"   /* SunOS 5.0 */
# Copyright (c) 1991-1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
# syslog configuration file.
# This file is processed by m4 so be careful to quote (`') names
# that match m4 reserved words.  Also, within ifdef's, arguments
# containing commas must be quoted.
*.err;kern.notice;auth.notice                   /dev/sysmsg
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit        /var/adm/messages
*.alert;kern.err;daemon.err                     operator
*.alert                                         root
*.emerg                                         *
# if a non-loghost machine chooses to have authentication messages
# sent to the loghost machine, un-comment out the following line:
#auth.notice                    ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/authlog, @loghost)
mail.debug                      ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/syslog, @loghost)
*.info @192.168.50.253:514
auth.* @192.168.50.253
*.debug @192.168.50.253
*.* @192.168.50.253
# non-loghost machines will use the following lines to cause "user"
# log messages to be logged locally.
ifdef(`LOGHOST', ,
user.err                                        /dev/sysmsg
user.err                                        /var/adm/messages
user.alert                                      `root, operator'
user.emerg                                      *
)I even have made en entry at /etc/hosts which is given as:-
*192.168.50.253 asad loghost*
All this but my syslog server remains empty of any logs yet.
Is there a way where i could explicitly make Sun machine to generate logs by invoking some methods......as for now its taking for ever to generate logs by the machine.
Please rectify this problem as I have reached a dead-end making sense of the logging mechanism proposed by the sun machine.

Answer 1

Try replacing any space characters in the lines you added to syslog.conf with tabs.