Gary Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote in article
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> >Looking for some help analyzing a system log file problem.
> >
> >Normally we change the system log file once on day.
> >One day(Sept 10), we spun through 8 log files in 1/2 hour.
> >
> >I've looked at these logs with ALFRED. Doesn't show anything out of
> >the ordinary.  Haven't figured out how to use LOGTOOL yet.
> >
>
>
> If you have VEAUDIT, try loglist.
>
> The times this has happend to us, it was due to someone on a PC shutting
it
> off without logging off the system.  Our MUX (Tellabs) kept sending a
> carriage return which filled up the log files.
>
> Good Luck!!
>
>
> Gary Jackson
> Nevada CSOS
> (916) 478-6407 - voice
> (916) 478-6410 - fax
>

Be VERY careful with VESOFT's LISTLOG.  It you use it and it tries to read
the currently opened logfile, system logging will be shutdown and you
either have to go into :DEBUG to turn it on (easy actually) or restart the
system.  I don't know if this is a VESOFT or an HP bug.

Michael P. Smith
Sr. Systems Programmer
The Hertz Corporation