Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 25 Dec 1996 00:20:55 +0600 (GMT+0600) | From | M Shariful Anam <> | Subject | Re: message log file unwritten and/or not readable |
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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.
--- M Shariful Anam <shuman@kaifnet.com>
Kaifnet Services -- Bangladesh
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