Administering TCP/IP

Logging troubleshooting information

Most of the server daemons started by /etc/inetd.conf accept a -d option forcing all sockets to be created with debugging turned on. With debugging on, activity is logged in /usr/adm/syslog. To enable logging:

Edit /etc/inetd.conf to add the -d option to each daemon you want to log.
Determine the process ID of inetd by entering the following command:

cat /etc/inetd.pid
The process ID of inetd appears.
Send a message to inetd to force it to reread /etc/inetd.conf:

kill -1 inetd_pid
inetd_pid is the process ID from step 2.

If you enable logging for all server daemons, take care to monitor the size of /usr/adm/syslog, as it may grow quickly. To turn off logging, reedit inetd.conf to remove debug flags and kill -1 the inet daemon again.