Log files

• Enable logging of all successful logins
  1. Create/check /etc/security/authlog with the following contents:

        #!/usr/bin/ksh
        # /etc/security/authlog: syslog all successfull logins
        /usr/bin/logger -t tsm -p auth.info "$@ logged in from $(/usr/bin/tty) (${DISPLAY})"
     

     and allow root only:

        chmod 700 /etc/security/authlog
     

  2. In /etc/security/login.cfg (AIX <= 5.1)
     or
     /usr/lib/security/methods.cfg (AIX >= 5.2)
     

        AUTHLOG:
                program = /etc/security/authlog
     

  3. In /etc/security/user
     change the auth2 attribute in the default stanza:

        auth2 = AUTHLOG
     

  4. for logins via CDE /etc/dt/config/Xsession.d/dtlog should contain:

        #!/usr/bin/ksh
        # /etc/dt/config/Xsession.d/dtlog: log dtlogins
        /usr/bin/logger -t dtlogin -p auth.info "${LOGNAME} logged in from (${DISPLAY})"
     

• /etc/syslog.conf
  defines the amount of system logging:

     *.debug               /var/adm/syslog.debug
     *.info                /var/adm/syslog
     mail.debug            /var/spool/mqueue/log
     auth.debug            /var/adm/syslog.auth   # for the logging machine
     auth.debug            @biolog                # for all others, except logging machine!
  

  IMPORTANT: do not use @biolog on the logging machine itself, it well generate in infite loop of syslogs ! The actual value of biolog is determined via DNS name resolution.
  Strangely, you have to "generate" the log files manually ???

     touch /var/spool/mqueue/syslog
     touch /var/adm/syslog.auth
     touch /var/adm/syslog.debug
     touch /var/adm/syslog
  
     # update the syslog daemon with the new settings:
  
     refresh -s syslogd 
  

• /opt/bin/logrotate.sh is a custom shell script to rename previous versions of the above logfiles by appending a version number running from 0 through 5
  (/local/bin/newsyslog is the obsolete version for a hardcoded collection of log files).
  Use

     crontab -e
     
     # 0 3 * * * /local/bin/newsyslog >/dev/null 
     1 3 * * * /opt/bin/logrotate.sh /var/adm/syslog.debug >/dev/null
     2 3 * * * /opt/bin/logrotate.sh /var/adm/syslog >/dev/null
     3 3 * * * /opt/bin/logrotate.sh /var/adm/syslog.auth >/dev/null
     4 3 * * * /opt/bin/logrotate.sh /var/spool/mqueue/syslog >/dev/null
  

  to schedule this at 3 AM plus a few minutes.