/var/log/messages is empty

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> On 04/19/2009 02:29:38 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>>>> 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?
> 
> root at pvr[7]->logger Foo
> root at pvr[8]->tail /var/log/messages
> root at pvr[9]->
> 
It sounds like the log file may have been deleted/recreated without
rsyslog being restarted. Try running "service rsyslog reload" or
"service rsyslog restart" and see if that helps. It is possible for
a process to keep writing to a file it had open, even if the file
has ben deleter.

Mikkel
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