sorry i'm late with this summary, but at least here it is:
MY ORIGINAL QUESTION:
hi,
i got the following message written out to the console of some machines
(sun ultra1/170, solaris 2.5.1, nis)
>>syslogd: unknown host loghost st syslog.conf line 30<<
and this is my syslog.conf (line 30 is blank)
29 mail.debug ifdef(`LOGHOST', /var/log/syslog, @loghost)
30
i thought there might be a problem resolving the alias loghost but the
/etc/hosts file is correct.
THE SOLUTION
the problem was not really the syslog.conf i just didn't look at
nsswitch.conf close enough. in nsswitch.conf there was this line:
hosts : nis [NOTFOUND=return] files
my loghost was defined locally in /etc/hosts but of course the system
did not care about the entries in /etc/hosts and by just writing
hosts : nis files
instead the problem was solved
THANKS TO
Anthony Worrall
David M. Stern, Roc
Bertrand Hutin
cj
K.Ravi
Matthew Stier
Rasana Atreya
Karl E. Vogel
and to
Ozgur Deniz Erzinca who opend my eyes
...and to anyone i may have missed
clemens
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university of salzburg
hellbrunnerstr. 34 clemens@wst.edvz.sbg.ac.at
5020 salzburg, austria http://www.edvz.sbg.ac.at/~clemens
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