[NTLUG:Discuss] RH7 not writing /var/log/messages

[sysmail@glade.net]

This may be a brain-dead suggestion, but I think I'm having a Monday (re:
the movie 'Office Space').

Have you confirmed /etc/syslog.conf (or whatever syslog configuration file
is named in /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog) is intact, and is in fact requiring
log entries?

Also, is syslogd running (ps ax | grep syslogd)?

Regards,

Carl

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Carl Haddick
sysmail at glade.net
GladeNet Communications

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 asenec at senechalle.net wrote:

> Try touching the file and then 'killall -HUP syslogd'.
>
> Annette
>
> > From discuss-admin at ntlug.org Sun Mar  4 23:41 CST 2001
> > Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 23:41:33 -0600
> > From: Neil Aggarwal <neil at JAMMConsulting.com>
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> > Indraneel:
> >
> > I have 4 gig of space left in that partition and
> > there is a zero-length messages file.
> >
> > I appreciate your trying, but I am still stumped.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > 	Neil.
> >
> >
> > Indraneel Majumdar wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Please check if the /var partition is full or if the /var log/messages
> > > file exists after it has been backed up. IMHO syslog appends to the file
> > > and cannot create it if it does not exist.
> > >
> > > \Indraneel
> > >
> > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have a RH7 server that is not writing to /var/log/messages.
> > > > It was doing that before, but it quit on the 1st of the month.
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