Larry - Review your /etc/syslog.conf file...

The 5.3 AIX level may be more stringent about its historic contents,
or the AIX 5.3 install may have changed something in it.
It sounds like there is an asterisk in a Priority position in the file.

  Richard Sims

On May 22, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Lawrence Clark wrote:

the conslog shows:

1148172312 May 20 20:45:12 tsmserv syslog:err|error syslogd: unkn
own priority name "*": errno = 2

the entry in /etc/inittab  has remained much the same since ADSM 3

TSM was upgraded and brought up prior to the AIX  upgrade, so it
appears to be something related to the AIX upgrade.