Thanks for overwhelming response ! The consensus was to have at least

following entry in "/etc/syslog.conf" file :

daemon.info /var/log/syslog

and soft-starting syslogd daemon. It worked fine the first time !

Other entries to be considered are :

*.info /var/log/syslog

*.notice /var/log/syslog

*.debug /var/log/syslog

Thanks to :

dengland@ivac.com (Dave England)

Daniel.Blander@ACSacs.com (Daniel)

Salvador Ramirez <sram@inf.UDEC.CL>

Chris Ellington <chrielli@iquest.net>

davem@cp.tybrin.com (Dave McFerren)

Fedor Gnuchev <qwe@ht.eimb.rssi.ru>

Peter.Bestel@uniq.com.au (Peter Bestel)

Original question follows :

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Once again, I come for collective wisdom of noble sun-managers !

My system has /var/log/syslog file of 0(zero) bytes. While setting up

anonymous ftp server, I was supposed to get ALL messages in this file.

(I am starting ftpd with -l option). I can successfully login as

anonymous user, transfer file but syslog file doesn't make any entry.

I have checked that :

1. /etc/syslog.conf exists (rw-r--r-- root sys)

2. /usr/sbin/syslogd exists(rwxr--r-- root sys) and daemon is running.

System : Netra625i with NetraOS (SS20 with Solaris 2.4 - customized)

Any help is appreciated and I will summarize.

Thanks

...manjeet