[Fedora] no entries in /var/log/* - FC3

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Wed Mar 9 10:07:56 UTC 2005


Götz Reinicke wrote:

> After a /etc/init.d/syslog restart the logs are written until they 
> have to be rotated, then no new entries are loged (The empty logfile 
> is touched). :-((
>
> Any ideas? What to check?

    Make sure /etc/logrotate.d/syslog is actually restarting syslog as 
well.  Mine looks like this:

----------
/var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron {
    sharedscripts
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> 
/dev/null || true
    endscript
}
----------

(there are missing log files from the first line compared to a stock 
install - I don't need those rotated, so I remove them.)

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