The LDAP Manager

System log levels

Information is recorded in the system log, /var/adm/log/osmlog. The log level selected indicates the type (and indirectly, the amount) of operational and debugging information recorded. Clicking on Select displays a list of log levels. These are additive, so clicking on the values 64 and 32 causes a value of 96 to appear in the data entry field. Note that the greater the number of options selected, the more information will be logged, a situation that is compounded where there are a large number of directory entries and LDAP requests.

It is recommended that the system log level be set to 0 once it has been established that the daemon is running correctly. If this is not acceptable, a cron(1M) job can be established that will periodically clean out the log file, as follows:

  1. Kill the cat /dev/osm process.

  2. Empty the file /var/adm/log/osmlog.

  3. As root, run the following:

    cat /dev/osm >> /var/adm/log/osmlog &

Note that large amounts of system log information can also adversely affect the performance of the server.
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UnixWare 7 Release 7.1.1 - 5 November 1999