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SubjectRe: message log file unwritten and/or not readable


On Mon, 23 Dec 1996, Steve Cahill wrote:
> After moving /var/log/messages --> /var/log/old.messages no further
> messages were written to /var/log/messages.

After deleting or renaming the logs (messages, syslog), you should do a
'kill -HUP' to the syslogd process. This is because the syslog daemon
actually keeps track of i-node of the log file.

> cron
> wtmp
> lastlog

None of these are used by the syslog facility.

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M Shariful Anam <shuman@kaifnet.com>

Kaifnet Services -- Bangladesh



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