[rhn-users] /var/log/messages empty (more info)

[Sullivan, Michael]

When was the last entry in any of your /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog
file made?  When was the last time the box was rebooted? Was it a
hard-failure or init 6 ? 

You can try running the syslogd with the -d option (debug).  The out put is
displayed to the current tty.  You should see the /var/log/messages and the
others listed.  Any errors will be displayed. 

#syslogd -d

--Mike. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of FM
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:53 AM
To: Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: Re: [rhn-users] /var/log/messages empty (more info)


Here more info


# lsof  | grep /var/log/messages


# lsof  | grep /var/log/secure
syslogd   26655     root    1w   REG        8,9      28488     160521 
/var/log/secure


So even after restarting syslogd it do not open the messages file

FM wrote:
> REHL 3 AS Update 4
> 
> Hello for several days now /var/log/messages is empty.
> 
> I did not change logrotate and syslog config file
> 
> All logrotate do a postscript kill -SIGHUP of the syslog PID
> 
> How can I troubleshoot syslog ?
> 
> thanks !
> 
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