/var/log/messages is empty

Joseph L. Casale JCasale at activenetwerx.com
Sun Apr 19 21:29:38 UTC 2009


>> logrotate moves /var/log/messages to /var/log/messages-todaysdate 
>> once
>> in a
>> while.
>> 
>Thanks, but that's not the problem. I've got several rotated logs with 
>content, and one without.

I think you may have missed the point: If logrotate swapped it,
and nothing new has been logged, it could be empty.

# logger Foo
# tail /var/log/messages

What you get?




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