Problem with syslogd

Johan Pretorius jpretorius at dunns.co.za
Tue Jan 9 06:06:44 UTC 2007


> > I have RHEL 4 (currently 100% up2date) running on a Dell 2950. For 
> > some reason the syslogd does not log any messages (actually no 
> > messages were even logged with in the last 5 weeks). The syslog.conf 
> > file is the standerd one (no changes made). Also syslogd seems to run 
> > for a while and then dies (not running but pid file exists)
> >
> > A reboot does not fix this problem and I have no Idea where to start 
> > looking for the problem. Any suggestions on how to fix/troubleshoot 
> > this problem?
> 
> Have you verified which, if any files have changed from the RPM defaults:
> 
> rpm -V sysklogd
> 
> Have you verified the package signature?
> 
> rpm -K sysklogd

This is the version I have installed: sysklogd-1.4.1-26_EL (rpm -qa | grep sysklog)
"rpm -V sysklogd" returns: "S.5....T. c /etc/syslog.conf"
"rpm -K sysklogd" returns nothing (Can this be right?)
"syslogd -v" returns: "syslogd 1.4.1"

Do you see anything that is wrong?

Thanks


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