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

[Götz Reinicke]

Everything looks like your discribed and all files ar in the right 
places. And yes, everything is running by root :-)

Because everything is from the original FC3 rpms I#m that confused; a 
second server with nearly the same sysrem config (SMP, FC3,..) has no 
problem at all...

Regards

replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net wrote:

> that means that it's failing when trying to run the postrotate script
> in that (syslog) file.
> 
> look carefully at the lines there (/etc/logrotate.d/syslog). it should
> look (something) like the following:
> 
> 
> ... list of files to be rotated...
>  {
>     sharedscripts
>     postrotate
>         /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2>
> /dev/null || true
>     endscript
> }
> 
> 
> where the quotes before "cat" and after "null" are (single) back-ticks
> (also the line is wrapped after the "2>" in my output above).
> 
> make certain that the pathing is correct for everything, and that your
> "kill" binary is there (if it isn't other things should have broken
> too, but it never hurts to check).
> 
> last, but not least, you are running this (both manually and via cron)
> as "root", correct?
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> 
>>From: Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>
>>To: Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 03:31:15 PM +0100
>>Subject: Re: [Fedora] no entries in /var/log/* - FC3
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>thanks for the hint, I did a manuall (logrotate -f -v
>>/etc/logrotate.conf) logrotate and get an error
>>
>>
>>error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/messages
>>/var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log
>>/var/log/cron
>>
>>But what causes this error?
>>
>>syslogd is still running and the pid-file is in the right place
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>
>>
>>replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>i would suggest running logrotate manually (you'll probably need to
>>>use the -f flag to make it actually run), and see if you get any
>>>errors or warnings. that *might* give you some ideas or hints
>>>
>>>i'm assuming that you've confirmed that syslogd is (still) running
>>>after  logrotate runs. if it is, do a "kill -HUP" on it. also, check
>>>that it's pid file is in the location indicated by the
>>>logroate.d/syslog script. if syslogd stops running when logrotate is
>>>run, then running logrotate manually should give you a hint of what
>>>the problem is.
>>>
>>>---------- Original Message ----------
>>>
>>>
>>>>From: Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>
>>>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>>>Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 02:48:05 PM +0100
>>>>Subject: Re: [Fedora] no entries in /var/log/* - FC3
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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:
>>>>
>>>><...>
>>>>
>>>>Mine /etc/logrotate.d/syslog looks exactly the same.
>>>>
>>>>any more ideas?
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>-- 
>>>>Götz Reinicke
>>>>IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet
>>>>
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>>>
>>>---------- End Original Message ----------
>>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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> 
> ---------- End Original Message ----------
> 

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