/var/log/messages is not getting new data.

[Joel Gomberg]

John DeDourek wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
>> Hi, I'm on FC6 machine that gets updated at least once a week. I 
>> notice today {monday}, that messages has been rotated and is empty so 
>> far.
>> -rw------- 1 root root      0 Apr  8 09:07 /var/log/messages
>> -rw------- 1 root root 326802 Apr  5 07:03 /var/log/messages.1
>> -rw------- 1 root root 632374 Apr  1 04:05 /var/log/messages.2
>> -rw------- 1 root root 273450 Mar 25 11:06 /var/log/messages.3
>> -rw------- 1 root root  89829 Mar 20 18:53 /var/log/messages.4
>>
>> Since the machine has been shutdown and rebooted 3/4 times since Apr5, 
>> it seems that no data is getting to this log. The machine has been on 
>> for many hours almost every day since (now Apr9). Normally yum log 
>> items are also logged to messages, but there have been none of these 
>> in this time frame.

>> Apr 04 22:21:30 Updated: VMware-server.i386 1.0.2-39867
>> Apr 04 22:34:16 Updated: VMware-server-console.i386 1.0.2-39867

VMware server updates have the nasty habit of modifying 
/etc/services and changing its SeLinux context.  Running 
restorecon /etc/services as root should fix the problem.

-- 
Joel