Where is my system.log?

I just noticed that /var/log/system.log doesn't exist on my system and the latest entries in the rotational files are from July 25, 2005. Why isn't my system logger running properly, and how do I get it back?
Beige G3/233, MDD G4/1000*2

Sam,
Open the terminal application and type:
sudo -s
Press return. The prompt will change to password: Enter your admin password and press the return key. The prompt will change to root#
Copy this command from this post and paste it into the Terminal app.
touch /var/log/system.log
Press the return key.
Enter this command.
sh /etc/daily
When the prompt returns type;
exit
and press the return key to return to your own shell.

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Sam,
Open the terminal application and type:
sudo -s
Press return. The prompt will change to password: Enter your admin password and press the return key. The prompt will change to root#
Copy this command from this post and paste it into the Terminal app.
touch /var/log/system.log
Press the return key.
Enter this command.
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When the prompt returns type;
exit
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SAP System Log on issue using Crystal Reports:

Hi All,
I have installed Crystal reports, Business Explorer and Business Objects XI Integration. But when I tried to create a new report using SAP Table, Cluster or Functional, I couldn't able to select SAP System since it shows SAP System Log on selection was blank.
Note: I have undergone the following trials:
         1) All the trials are done after connecting to the Internal Vpn.
         2) Re-installed the Crystal reports, Business Explorer and Business Objects XI. But result was the same.
         3) Compared all the setting parameters with another System which works fine.
         4) Only difference seems to be that I am using Win Vista and other one is Win XP OS.
         5) Tried in the net for Win Vista specific patches or software to run the crystal report but couldn't helped.
Did any one come across similar experience or is there any idea why it could be? Thank you in advance.
Best Regards,
Sujith
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Hi Don,
Thank you very much for your reply. I was wondering from where we could download XI R2 ( 11.5 ) SP 2. I have tried downloading Software Forces .rpt Inspector 3 Professional suite (for CR XI R2) . But this doesn't seems to be the right one. Also I have cheked in sdn Crysal Report 2008 download (https://websmp230.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/bobj_download/main.htm ). But no luck. Thanks again.
Best Regards,
Sujith.

Callable Objects-Write to System Log,Offline Approval

Hi,
I am new to Guided Procedures and I am trying out examples in all callable objects.
I have doubts in 2 callable object
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After we Enter the Log text where to go and view the text.
2.Callable object under Process control type - OfflineApproval
When I use this callable object I am not getting mail whether the action is approved or rejected.
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Edited by: Bala Baskaran on Feb 27, 2008 12:48 PM

Hi,
Which SRM version are you working??Always mention that in your post for appropriate solutions.
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I looked at system.log in the system profiler today and see lots of activity at 2 a.m. when I was fast asleep, should I worry? It seems to reset hostname and mentions frequent transitions for interface, looks weird to me (I'm not a teckie!)

I looked at system.log in the system profiler today and see lots of activity at 2 a.m. when I was fast asleep, should I worry? It seems to reset hostname and mentions frequent transitions for interface, looks weird to me (I'm not a teckie!)
This is a section:
May 12 02:05:10 wendy-drapers-macbook configd[14]: setting hostname to "wendy-drapers-macbook.local"
May 12 02:05:29 wendy-drapers-macbook kernel[0]: Auth result for: 00:26:44:14:17:a3 MAC AUTH succeeded
May 12 02:05:29 wendy-drapers-macbook kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
May 12 02:05:29 wendy-drapers-macbook mDNSResponder[16]: Note: Frequent transitions for interface en1 (192.168.1.92); network traffic reduction measures in effect
May 12 02:05:29 macbook configd[14]: setting hostname to "macbook.lan"
May 12 02:05:31 macbook mDNSResponder[16]: Note: Frequent transitions for interface en1 (FE80:0000:0000:0000:021E:C2FF:FEB3:1A3E); network traffic reduction measures in effect
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I've been seeing messages exactly like that (and many, many other kinds) in the Console since the first version of OS X. They look menacing but are harmless.
You don't need any kind of security software.
Just surf the web carefully, pay attention to where you're going and don't install anything that you don't recognize. If you are asked to enter an admin user name and password, DON'T. Unless you know for sure that you initiated the installation from a known and reliable source (like Apple).
Mac malware relies on social engineering. No amount of security/anti-virus, blah, blah, blah software is going to help.

ICal doesn't show delegation, and generates date and time error messages in /var/log/system.log

I have a problem with my iCal, when I use my caldav account, I can only see my own calendar on my MBA, on my co-workers MBP it works fine with both my account and his. My co-worker can't see other calendars than his own when he uses iCal on my laptop.
We can reproduce this problem on his computer by setting Location to Automatic rather than Amsterdam, then after deleting iCal's cache files, the caldav account and setting the Location back to Amsterdam solves the problem for him.
It does not solve the problem for me (or several other co-workers). We've been looking at this for a few weeks, and we can not find any clear pattern why certain machines have this problem and others don't.
All machines (both affected and unaffected) are running Mac OS 10.7.2 with iCal 5.0.1
I've spoken to Apple support over the phone (in the Netherlands), unfortunately, they couldn't help with this.
So far we've tried numerous location and language settings, but on affected machines nothing appears to solve the delegation problem (which we assume to be connected to the error messages iCal generates)
Starting iCal yeilds the following error messages in /var/log/system.log:
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 [0x0-0x58f58f].com.apple.iCal[23884]: line 1,1: expecting FREQUENCE, found 'BYDAY' as token type 5
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: iCalendar recurrence failure BYDAY=-1SU;FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3
          line 1,6: unexpected char: '='
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 [0x0-0x58f58f].com.apple.iCal[23884]: line 1,1: expecting FREQUENCE, found 'BYDAY' as token type 5
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: iCalendar recurrence failure BYDAY=-1SU;FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10
          line 1,6: unexpected char: '='
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: Unexpected EOF, returning last token as fallback
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: VTIMEZONE does not match System Time Zone (Europe/Amsterdam) for 20100105T000000 to 20120105T000000: (
              "interval: 2001-01-01 01:00:00 +0100, offset: 3600"
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              "interval: 2011-03-27 03:00:00 +0200, offset: 7200",
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          X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam
          TZID:Europe/Amsterdam
          BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
          TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
          TZNAME:CEST
          TZOFFSETTO:+0200
          DTSTART:19700329T020000
          END:DAYLIGHT
          BEGIN:STANDARD
          TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
          TZNAME:CET
          TZOFFSETTO:+0100
          DTSTART:19701025T030000
          END:STANDARD
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Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 [0x0-0x58f58f].com.apple.iCal[23884]: line 1,1: expecting FREQUENCE, found 'BYDAY' as token type 5
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: iCalendar recurrence failure BYDAY=-1SU;FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3
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Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 [0x0-0x58f58f].com.apple.iCal[23884]: line 1,1: expecting FREQUENCE, found 'BYDAY' as token type 5
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: iCalendar recurrence failure BYDAY=-1SU;FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10
          line 1,6: unexpected char: '='
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: Unexpected EOF, returning last token as fallback
Jan 5 11:31:05 dhcp-91 iCal[23884]: VTIMEZONE does not match System Time Zone (Europe/Amsterdam) for 20100105T000000 to 20120105T000000: (
              "interval: 2001-01-01 01:00:00 +0100, offset: 3600"
          ) != (
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              "interval: 2010-10-31 02:00:00 +0100, offset: 3600",
              "interval: 2011-03-27 03:00:00 +0200, offset: 7200",
    "interval: 2011-10-30 02:00:00 +0100, offset: 3600"
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          X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam
          TZID:Europe/Amsterdam
          BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
          TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
          TZNAME:CEST
          TZOFFSETTO:+0200
          DTSTART:19700329T020000
          END:DAYLIGHT
          BEGIN:STANDARD
          TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
          TZNAME:CET
          TZOFFSETTO:+0100
          DTSTART:19701025T030000
          END:STANDARD
          END:VTIMEZONE
And when I close iCal I get:
Jan 5 11:33:25 dhcp-91 [0x0-0x592592].com.apple.iCal[23894]: token mismatch: 4 != 5

I'm seeing the same thing, and I can't even find where OS X stores calendars on disk anymore...

Solution manager system log - strange entries

Hi Everyone,
the problem we are facing in Solution Manager system log every five minutes appears a new error message:
2 Database error -30082 at CON
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0 > ("USERNAME AND/OR PASSWORD INVALID"). SQLSTATE=08001
First of all the landscape: ECC, BI, CRM, PI and Solman. Each system is DEV, QUA, PRD - except Solution Manager.
Result of going to see the logs within work directory:
Connect to %_DCR_XXXXX as db2dcr with DB6_DB_NAME=DCR;DB6_DB_HOST=xxxxxx;DB6_DB_SCHEMA=SAPSR3;DB6_DB_SVCENAME=5912
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[dbdb6.c      1732]
Some of the systems are being connected successfully and the error messages in SM21 are not related to those systems. But some of the systems like DCR cannot be reached. And this fact causing the error messages.
I haven't configured Solution Manager because I have joined the project later. I would like to know what job is trying to access the satellite system and for what purpose.
On solution manager side I have checked all the scheduled background jobs - all of them have been executed successfully.
There some of them are scheduled but it is hard understand what is purpose of the job.
I have checked and corrected system landscape through SMSY and have maintained all the RFCs. They all OK now.
What else could force to make a connection to satellite system? And where is the place where it is hardcoded local(satellite) db2 connection entry?
Like I said before, some of the systems are being connected but some not. The one which has not been connected - there was recently changed SAP master password. I believe this is the key to resolve the problem. But the system itself operating 100% correctly.
Perhaps it could be CCMS that makes some extra connections to collect the data from the monitored systems. But I have checked all the RFC's in SM59 and they were OK.
Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Kind regards,
Artjom.

Kaustubh Krishna,
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It was dbacockpit. The connection was maintained with old db2sid password. And it was causing problematic log entries.
Problem was solved.
Points awarded.
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kind regards,
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Hello!
On every startup of my mac os x server I get the following entries in system.log from mcxd.app.
Oct 9 20:34:45 sebastian /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/MacOS/mcxd: DSGetLocallyHostedNodeNames(): dsFindDirNode() == -14008
Oct 9 20:34:45 sebastian /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/MacOS/mcxd: DSGetSearchPath(): DSGetLocallyHostedNodeNames() == -14956
Oct 9 20:34:45 sebastian /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/MacOS/mcxd: DSGetCurrentConfigInfo(): DSGetSearchPath() == -14956
Oct 9 20:34:45 sebastian /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/MacOS/mcxd: DSGetCacheInfo(): DSGetCurrentConfigInfo() == -14956
Oct 9 20:34:45 sebastian /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/MacOS/mcxd: * MCXD.getComputerInfo: Couldn't get cache info -14956
How can I get rid off them? Any hints?
Thanx in advance
Gerhard

Nigel,
While the error messages you are seeing might not be anything to worry about (you will see some of these even in the best of circumstances, but I cannot speak to yours, specifically), you shouldn't be seeing any "wonky" behavior. The fact that you are indicates that something might, indeed, be wrong.
My best advice to you would be to start with a clean slate. I just received a new machine, myself (this beautiful new 17" Powerbook), and I spent the past day doing just that: starting "clean."
What I mean by this is formatting the drive right out of the box, then reinstalling. And, not just any format, but a "zeroing" of the entire drive. This took about 45 minutes on my PB, but the process will "map out"any potential bad blocks on the drive, thereby reducing the possibility of encountering disk errors for the near future. Another good reason to reinstall yourself, even if you don't "zero" the drive, is that Apple often ends up installing the wrong version of an OS to a given machine, especially if that machine has just been released. We see many cases where a user will find, by reinstalling from the disks that come with new Mac models, that the OS is slightly different than the one that was originally installed, and that the disk-installed version works without problems. Hmmm.
Unless and until you do this yourself, you will not have a firm foundation from which to troubleshoot any problems you might be having. If, after having done this, you find that you still have problems, the next thing to look for is a bad RAM module. If you rule out a bad RAM module, only then should you consider the possibility that something is wrong with the machine, itself.
Scott

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Dear Apple Discussion,
I am trying to read the system.log correctly - mainly because my boot time is 2 minutes.
I have read that the beginning of the boot up is indicated by the line:
localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
is this correct?
Next, does the line:
loginwindow[165]: Login Window Started Security Agent
indicate that the login window has come up?
If both of these are correct then my boot time should be 18s (according to the time stamps in the log) - it defefinitely is not that.
Does the boot process start instead at this line:
shutdown: reboot by root:
If this were the case, the boot time would be closer to 2 minutes according to the log (which is what it actually is).
This then brings up the next problem: the two minutes basically come from the following line:
Nov 29 17:30:24 Purrfekt shutdown: reboot by root:
Nov 29 17:30:24 Purrfekt SystemStarter[177]: authentication service (194) did not complete successfully
Nov 29 17:30:24 Purrfekt kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : unloading cisco ipsec kernel module.
Nov 29 17:30:24 Purrfekt kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : detaching from interface: en1.
Nov 29 17:30:24 Purrfekt kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : interface en1, filter has been safely detached.
Nov 29 17:30:24 Purrfekt kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : detaching from interface: en0.
Nov 29 17:30:24 Purrfekt kernel[0]: CiscoVPN : interface en0, filter has been safely detached.
Nov 29 17:32:12 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
ending line of the boot process occurs at (if my above assumption is correct):
Nov 29 17:32:31 Purrfekt loginwindow[165]: Login Window Started Security Agent
So why does it hang for so long at this one process? Am I reading the log incorrectly? I have searched around here and also on google ("slow boot time", "cisco vpn tiger", etc..) but haven't found anything relating to my problem.
Thanks for any help.
MonkeyApple
v.1 PowerBook G4 15'' Mac OS X (10.4.3)

I am trying to read the system.log correctly - mainly because my boot time is 2 minutes.
It appears to be that a restart or shutdown process delays nearly 2 minutes rather than a startup process, presumably due to one of WindowServer children or a bug stays in Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update-- Mine delays approximately 30 - 40 minutes on PowerMac G5 2.7 Ghz on every shutdown or restart process. Your computer is PowerMac G4 so that make sense. I found a suspect application which is a security related. Although I am still investigating further because the issue does not occur on the lower drive bay where I install another Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update (but no third-party software) as a test facility.
localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
This is correct and the first line to display sequential events in a boot process.
loginwindow[165]: Login Window Started Security Agent
This is also a normal behavior.
SystemStarter[xxx]: authentication service (xxx) did not complete successfully
This can be displayed depending on a computer configuration.
A sequential event from CiscoVPN: unloading cisco ipsec kernel module to CiscoVPN: interface en0, filter has been safely detached seems to be all right if you PROPERLY configure VPN policy and IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) authenticate, etc for your Cisco device. IPsec is a framework for a set of protocols for security at the network or packet processing layer of network communication.
I suggest to check all related settings with Netwrok/Sharing panes and the router configurations for VPN (IPsec), IPv6, security, etc. Also check routing table and all socket connections after you launch Network Utility or via Terminal commands.
FYI: interface en0 is a wired connection and interface en1 is a wireless connection such as AirPort. IPsec kernel module is a unit of kernel program or componet for IPsec.
Hope this helps.
G5 Dual 2.7GHz, Dell XPS 3.2GHz, G3B&W, Sony LTop Mac OS X (10.4.3) Tiger10.4.2, MacOS 9.2.2, WinXP Pro, Win ME, Linux

Error in system logs of the abap engine

Hello All,
I got a incident for "error in system logs of the abap engine".When i checked in SM21,
13:50:18 BTC 024 001 SETUPADMIN SM59 Q0 W
SETUPADMIN deletes RFC destination
0000000000011DECBA9958E212E09B2C
05782 Background Processor No. 024 SETUPADMIN
1 SM59 /ITSC/DSA_PERIODICAL T Transaction Problem STSK
A destination has been deleted in SM59, destination
maintenance of RFC.
Problems can occur if this destination is still used in existing
ABAP
I checked in sm37,the job /ITSAM/HEALTHCHECK which
runs under the program /ITSC/DSA_PERIODICAL with frequency
10 mins is in finished state.
Kindly help me out, why this logs is always written in sm21 even if
the job got finished .
Thanks & Regards,
Harshavardhan

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        INTO TABLE GT_VIQMEL
        FROM VIQMEL
        WHERE QMNUM IN S_QMNUM .
please tell me how to solve this error when i run 24000 raw this select dump.
ASAP
thanks
Eman elgammal.

Strange System Log Entry

The following sequence keeps repeating every few seconds in the System Log. Does anyone have any ideas as to what it is all about? It appears to be referring to a Python script, but we have not "knowingly" executed any.
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: Traceback (most recent call last):
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: File "/usr/share/caldavd/bin/twistd", line 21, in <module>
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: run()
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 27, in run
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: app.run(runApp, ServerOptions)
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 379, in run
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: runApp(config)
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistd.py", line 23, in runApp
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: _SomeApplicationRunner(config).run()
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 156, in run
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: self.preApplication()
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistdunix.py", line 203, in preApplication
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: self.config['prefix'], self.config['nodaemon'])
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/scripts/twistdunix.py", line 113, in startLogging
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: logFile = app.getLogFile(logfilename or 'twistd.log')
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/application/app.py", line 410, in getLogFile
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: os.path.dirname(logPath))
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/python/logfile.py", line 113, in _init_
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: BaseLogFile._init_(self, name, directory, defaultMode)
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: File "/usr/share/caldavd/lib/python/twisted/python/logfile.py", line 26, in _init_
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: assert os.path.isdir(self.directory)
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.wikid[28950]: AssertionError
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.wikid[28950]): Exited with exit code: 1
Dec 13 13:15:06 host1 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.wikid): Throttling respawn: Will start in 8 seconds

Okay - I also noticed this same issue as propably many others - did little study and found out the reason.
First of all - these should be standard locations, but let's make sure. I found out that wikid keeps it settings in /etc/wikid/wikid.conf - From error messages I checked source of last mention before process ended. Not pasting anything to here, I usually use PHP or C and try to stay away from python but I was able to make something out. Assert is a function that makes a test agains something, if this test's result is true (if I remember my studies right, I rarely use assert) it exits process. Why? Sometimes when programs start they need to make certain checks to avoid crashing - crashing isn't nice..
Anyway, test was for existency of directory where logfile(s) are kept. From same or another source file I also found out about location /etc/wikid, I ofcourse could had checked it from there in the first place, but I liked to follow the code a bit.. There I found file wikid.plist, opened it - a long conf file and finally there it was - logfile(s) are kept in location:
/Library/Logs/wikid
I created this directory and restarted, everything wasn't okay yet, as rights for that directory were incorrect. So I checked com.apple.wikid in LaunchDaemons and found out it runs as user _teamsserver and gid _teamsserver. So I changed rights for that uid and gid and everything was working after that.
Here's what you need to do in terminal to get it working:
#sudo mkdir /Library/Logs/wikid
#sudo chown -R teamsserver:teamsserver /Library/Logs/wikid
Then just restart wikid, there you go. This was my first post and I just created account for this.
Can be marked as SOLVED but 10.5.2 should make sure this directory gets created - either when ever it's missing and wikid is started, or just a empty dir created while upgrading to 10.5.2

Errors in system log?

OK, so I'm relatively new to Mac OS X, but that's on the back of some 20 years of working with UNIX, so I'm well placed to handle Mac OS X.... or so I thought!
In fact, compared to generic UNIX systems, there's so much added to Mac OS X that it might as well be a totally different system.
Anyway, I've got this iMac G5 (iSight) 2.1 GHz, which came with 10.4.2 installed, and which I've fully updated (using Software Update) to 10.4.3. After the update, a few glitches have revealed themselves - like the Dock will sometimes just apparently lock up - clicking back on the desktop seems to be a fairly reliable way of unfeezing the Dock, but it's annoying nonetheless.
The glitches prompted me to look further into the system, and in particular, when I look at the system log, via Console, right after rebooting, I see some messages there that may or may not be of significance:
- SystemStarter[879]: authentication service (887) did not complete successfully
- localhost kernel[0]: AppleU3: WARNING: platform-chip-fault expected, but not found
- launchd: Server 0 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[65]: exited abnormally: Hangup
I must admit, the second of those seems a bit odd to me!
But, can anyone tell me how 'bad' these errors are? Do I need to delve further into their causes, or do Aqua and Darwin handle such 'events' quite gracefully (which I'll accept is more than possible)?
Whilst I was talking with one of the AppleCare guys earlier today, I tried to ask him about these syslog messages, but the response I got was that I should consult http://www.apple.com/support/mac101 !!! Right, very helpful!
AppleCare is great, I think, for users who simply need a bit of hand-holding and instruction in how to use their Mac. That's fine, as long as everything is working as it should - but when we're more advanced as users than that, and we have a more technical issue to resolve, whereand how are we supposed to get help from even more knowledgable support personnel?
Or are these discussion forums the best bet?
Nigel

Nigel,
While the error messages you are seeing might not be anything to worry about (you will see some of these even in the best of circumstances, but I cannot speak to yours, specifically), you shouldn't be seeing any "wonky" behavior. The fact that you are indicates that something might, indeed, be wrong.
My best advice to you would be to start with a clean slate. I just received a new machine, myself (this beautiful new 17" Powerbook), and I spent the past day doing just that: starting "clean."
What I mean by this is formatting the drive right out of the box, then reinstalling. And, not just any format, but a "zeroing" of the entire drive. This took about 45 minutes on my PB, but the process will "map out"any potential bad blocks on the drive, thereby reducing the possibility of encountering disk errors for the near future. Another good reason to reinstall yourself, even if you don't "zero" the drive, is that Apple often ends up installing the wrong version of an OS to a given machine, especially if that machine has just been released. We see many cases where a user will find, by reinstalling from the disks that come with new Mac models, that the OS is slightly different than the one that was originally installed, and that the disk-installed version works without problems. Hmmm.
Unless and until you do this yourself, you will not have a firm foundation from which to troubleshoot any problems you might be having. If, after having done this, you find that you still have problems, the next thing to look for is a bad RAM module. If you rule out a bad RAM module, only then should you consider the possibility that something is wrong with the machine, itself.
Scott

Where is my system.log?

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