Cisco Catalyst 2960 Series, Configuration Manual

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Purpose Command or Action
$ chmod 666 /var/log/
cisco.log
For more information, see the man syslog.conf and man
syslogd
commands on your UNIX system.
Make sure the syslog daemon reads the new changes.
Example:
$ kill -HUP `cat /etc/syslog.pid`
Step 3
Monitoring and Maintaining System Message Logs
Monitoring Configuration Archive Logs
Purpose Command
Displays the entire configuration log or the log for specified
parameters. show archive log config { all | number
[ end-number ] | user username [ session
number ] number [ end-number ] |
statistics
}
[
provisioning
]
Configuration Examples for System Message Logs
Example: Switch System Message
This example shows a partial switch system message on a switch:
00:00:46: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Port-channel1, changed state to up
00:00:47: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface GigabitEthernet0/1, changed state to up
00:00:47: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface GigabitEthernet0/2, changed state to up
00:00:48: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface Vlan1, changed state to down
00:00:48: %LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface GigabitEthernet0/1, changed state
to down 2
*Mar 1 18:46:11: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by vty2 (10.34.195.36)
18:47:02: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by vty2 (10.34.195.36)
*Mar
1 18:48:50.483 UTC: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by vty2 (10.34.195.36)
Consolidated Platform Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS Release 15.2(4)E (Catalyst 2960-X Switches)
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Monitoring and Maintaining System Message Logs