Based on a suggestion from Kathee Fitzgerald, I added "servername" to
"myworkstation"'s hosts file. Messages now show up by name at
myworkstation. I am not sure why this was necessary, as there are no other
entries in that hosts file (aside from the req'd myworkstation and
localhost) and I have several servers sending syslog info to myworkstation,
all of which show by name.
Thanks
Bill Skulley
DynCorp I&ET
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Skulley, William [SMTP:William.Skulley_at_rfets.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:45 AM
> To: tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov
> Subject: syslogd question
>
> Greetings all. I have a small head-scratcher (for me anyway)...
>
> I have set up entries in the syslog.conf files on our servers so that I
> get
> important system information for all our servers at my workstation:
>
> daemon.debug _at_myworkstation.rfets.gov
> etc...
>
> For most of my servers, this gets me an entry similar to the following:
>
> Jun 19 14:18:55 servername.rfets.gov syslogd: restart
>
> Except for one server, which gives me the IP address:
>
> Jun 19 12:28:25 [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.2.2] syslogd: restart
>
> The system in question is a Tru64 5.1 box, and name resolution appears to
> work in all directions - my workstation knows that system by name, that
> system knows my workstation by name, etc etc. What am I missing to have
> the
> entry at my workstation (Solaris 2.6, btw) be by name instead of IP?
>
>
> Thanks
> Bill Skulley
> DynCorp I&ET
Received on Wed Jun 20 2001 - 20:08:05 NZST