On an AIX 4.3 machine I have a full file /var/adm/ras/errlog (18 k), but
errpt shows nothing. The configuration for the error file is OK, as I
saw with smit. But how can it be? Something else to configure?

Regards,
Burkhard

Size of the /var/adm/ras/errlog is greater than 0 even when 'errpt'
doesn't show any error.

Try command
errlogger "Test"

and then look with errpt. You should se something like:
IDENTIFIER TIMESTAMP T C RESOURCE_NAME DESCRIPTION
AA8AB241 1113152007 T O OPERATOR OPERATOR NOTIFICATION


Davor

On Nov 13, 8:06 am, Burkhard Schultheis <schulth...@tde-online.de>
wrote:
> On an AIX 4.3 machine I have a full file /var/adm/ras/errlog (18 k), but
> errpt shows nothing. The configuration for the error file is OK, as I
> saw with smit. But how can it be? Something else to configure?
>
> Regards,
> Burkhard

The errlog is a "circular" file which never changes in size. AIX keeps
track
of the beginning and end of the valid entries by pointers of some
kind. Entries
are "deleted" by fiddling the pointers so that the entry is outside
the window of
valid entries. The size of errlog as shown by ls doesn't really tell
you anything
useful.

HTH

Jim Lane