Installing NetWare/IP

Logging and tracing

The NWIP daemon logs all of its activities, warnings and errors in the log file nwipd.log in the standard log directory, /var/adm/log. These are also all displayed on the console.

Four levels of message are logged by the daemon:

ERROR
WARNING
INFO
DEBUG

The command line switch can be used for setting the level of messages to be logged. When logging to the file, the existing log file is renamed to nwipd.log.old after a pre-determined number (300) lines have been accumulated, and a new log file created for subsequent lines. This prevents the log file from growing too large.

Messages logged to the file have the following format:

Label: Date: Type: Message

Label always reads ``UX:nwipd'', Date gives the date and time at which the message was generated and Type is one of ERROR, WARNING or INFO (DEBUG is logged as type INFO).

The following are examples of logged messages. All messages are read from message catalogs, and are thereby locale-dependent.

UX:nwipd: Fri Aug 6 12:09:43 1997: ERROR: No device configured (lan_1_adapter) for NW/IP

UX:nwipd: Fri Aug 6 12:09:43 1997: ERROR: Exiting with error code 1