Folks, I just logged onto our firewall box for my periodic peruse, and I noticed that the /var/log/messages file, created on 28 Jun is 0 bytes long. All the permissions, ownership and so on seem to be ok, and it certainly used to log stuff. Any ideas as to why it should stop logging? I'm a bit concerned about this... -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Jun 28 00:00 messages Also, how do I force an archive and compression of a log file? Cheers, Laurie.
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:49:19PM +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
Folks,
I just logged onto our firewall box for my periodic peruse, and I noticed that the /var/log/messages file, created on 28 Jun is 0 bytes long. All the permissions, ownership and so on seem to be ok, and it certainly used to log stuff. Any ideas as to why it should stop logging? I'm a bit concerned about this...
Has syslogd died? -- www.nott.ac.uk/~psystrj ..::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::. /\_./o__ ....:::::::::' Don't just stand there ALUG ...KNEEL!! ':::: (/^/(_^~' ''::::: :::: ___.(_.)____ ':::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Toby Jaffey wrote:
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:49:19PM +0100, Laurie Brown wrote:
Folks,
I just logged onto our firewall box for my periodic peruse, and I noticed that the /var/log/messages file, created on 28 Jun is 0 bytes long. All the permissions, ownership and so on seem to be ok, and it certainly used to log stuff. Any ideas as to why it should stop logging? I'm a bit concerned about this...
Has syslogd died?
Yep, it seems so... That'll be it then. Cheers, Laurie.
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