Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 23 Dec 1996 21:48:32 -0500 | From | Steve Cahill <> | Subject | message log file unwritten and/or not readable |
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HELP!
I am having a bit of a headache with my syslog (/var/log/messages -or- /usr/adm/messages) file which was first was unreadable, and now is not even writing.
The kernel I am running is 2.0.21 (see .config file below)
What I mean by unreadable was that execution of 'more' gave white space on the output of the log files and 'less' filled the screen with video-inverted amperstands with adjacent carrots "@^@^@^@^@^@^ ...." across the screen.
After moving /var/log/messages --> /var/log/old.messages no further messages were written to /var/log/messages.
Files that are apparently being updated however are:
cron wtmp lastlog
These of course are unreadable also.
The machine that this is happening on is a 486 SX compiled as a firewall machine and diskspace _was_ really at a premium (The disk is only a 100MB HDD) until I archived the /usr/src/linux directory. See the kernel .config file below attached.
I of course need to read this file to debug the ppp daemon and chat scripts.
I added the following lines to the /etc/syslog.conf file as the ppp README.linux suggests but still no luck:
daemon.* /dev/console daemon.* /usr/adm/ppplog
Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly welcomed at this point.
--Steve
# # Automatically generated make config: don't edit #
# # Code maturity level options # # CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set
# # Loadable module support # CONFIG_MODULES=y # CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set CONFIG_KERNELD=y
# # General setup # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y CONFIG_NET=y # CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set # CONFIG_PCI is not set CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y # CONFIG_M386 is not set CONFIG_M486=y # CONFIG_M586 is not set # CONFIG_M686 is not set
# # Floppy, IDE, and other block devices # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
# # Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set # CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
# # Additional Block Devices # # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
# # Networking options # CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y CONFIG_INET=y # CONFIG_IP_FORWARD is not set CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=m
# # (it is safe to leave these untouched) # # CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set CONFIG_INET_RARP=m # CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
# # # CONFIG_IPX=m # CONFIG_IPX_INTERN is not set # CONFIG_ATALK is not set # CONFIG_AX25 is not set # CONFIG_NETLINK is not set
# # SCSI support # # CONFIG_SCSI is not set
# # Network device support # CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y CONFIG_DUMMY=m CONFIG_EQUALIZER=m # CONFIG_PLIP is not set CONFIG_PPP=y
# # CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules. # CONFIG_SLIP=m # CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED is not set # CONFIG_SLIP_SMART is not set # CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 is not set # CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set # CONFIG_LANCE is not set # CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set CONFIG_NET_ISA=y # CONFIG_E2100 is not set # CONFIG_DEPCA is not set # CONFIG_EWRK3 is not set # CONFIG_EEXPRESS is not set # CONFIG_HPLAN_PLUS is not set # CONFIG_HPLAN is not set # CONFIG_HP100 is not set CONFIG_NE2000=y # CONFIG_SK_G16 is not set # CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set # CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set # CONFIG_TR is not set # CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
# # ISDN subsystem # # CONFIG_ISDN is not set
# # CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives) # # CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set
# # Filesystems # # CONFIG_QUOTA is not set # CONFIG_LOCK_MANDATORY is not set CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y # CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y # CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set # CONFIG_FAT_FS is not set # CONFIG_MSDOS_FS is not set # CONFIG_VFAT_FS is not set # CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set CONFIG_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_NFS_FS=y # CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is not set CONFIG_SMB_FS=m CONFIG_NCP_FS=m CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y # CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m CONFIG_UFS_FS=m CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL=y
# # Character devices # CONFIG_SERIAL=y # CONFIG_DIGI is not set # CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set # CONFIG_STALDRV is not set # CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set CONFIG_PRINTER=m # CONFIG_MOUSE is not set # CONFIG_UMISC is not set # CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set CONFIG_FTAPE=m
# # Set IObase/IRQ/DMA for ftape in ./drivers/char/ftape/Makefile # # CONFIG_APM is not set # CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set # CONFIG_RTC is not set
# # Sound # # CONFIG_SOUND is not set
# # Kernel hacking # # CONFIG_PROFILE is not set
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