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

[Jim Wildman]

Do you have a line like

syslog		514/udp

in /etc/services?

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On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> Kyle:
>
> > As a rule, when you have daemon problems, just run them in debug mode.  It's
> > usually easy spotting what the problem is from the output.
> > For syslogd, kill it, then run "syslogd -d".  I suspect an /etc/syslog.conf
> > parsing error.
>
> OK, I ran syslogd with the debug mode turned one, but
> I dont think I understand the output:
>
> # /sbin/syslogd -d
> Allocated parts table for 1024 file descriptors.
> Starting.
> Called logerr, msg: network logging disabled (syslog/udp service
> unknown).
> logmsg: syslog.err<43>, flags 4, from server2, msg syslogd: network
> logging disabled (syslog/udp service unknown).
> Called fprintlog, logging to CONSOLE /dev/console
> Called logerr, msg: see syslogd(8) for details of whether and how to
> enable it.
> logmsg: syslog.err<43>, flags 4, from server2, msg syslogd: see
> syslogd(8) for details of whether and how to enable it.
> Called fprintlog, logging to CONSOLE /dev/console
> Debugging disabled, SIGUSR1 to turn on debugging.
>
> Do you know what this means?
> Does it mean that the syslogd is writing messages to the console?
>
> Thanks,
> 	Neil.
>
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> Neil Aggarwal
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