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IMPLOGD(8C)  —  NEWS-OS Programmer’s Manual

NAME

implogd − IMP logger process

SYNOPSIS

/etc/implogd [ −d ]

DESCRIPTION

Implogd is program which logs error messages from the IMP, placing them in the file /usr/adm/implog.

Entries in the file are variable length.  Each log entry has a fixed length header of the form:

struct sockstamp {
shortsin_family;
u_shortsin_port;
structin_addr sin_addr;
time_tsin_time;
intsin_len;
};

followed, possibly, by the message received from the IMP.  Each time the logging process is started up it places a time stamp entry in the file (a header with sin_len field set to 0). 

The logging process will catch only those message from the IMP which are not processed by a protocol module, e.g. IP.  This implies the log should contain only status information such as “IMP going down” messages, “host down” and other error messages, and, perhaps, stray NCP messages. 

SEE ALSO

imp(4P), implog(8C)

NEWS-OSRelease 4.1C

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