Hello all,

I made some changes to my syslog.conf file, but they seem not to have taken effect yet. Is there a command I need to run to get syslog to reread this file? Do I need to restart syslog?

The syslog and syslog.conf man pages don't have the answer.

Any help appreciated.

either do a "/etc/init.d/syslogd restart" or "kill -1 $PID_OF_SYSLOGD"

.......

man syslogd:


[...]
Syslogd reacts to a set of signals. You may easily send a
signal to syslogd using the following:

kill -SIGNAL `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid`


SIGHUP This lets syslogd perform a re-initialization. All
open files are closed, the configuration file
(default is /etc/syslog.conf) will be reread and
the syslog(3) facility is started again.

[...]

Hmmm,

I tried
kill -1 41 (syslogd's pid #)
kill -SIGHUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid`
kill -SIGHUP 41

None are working. syslogd remains the same pid, and is not being restarted. Thanks for the response though...

Do you mean its behaviour didn't change?
The PID shouldn't, that's why you use SIGHUP
in the first place, rather than kill -9 ;)

Cheers,
Tink

Jeez, excuse my greenness,

I didn't know the pid would be the same, it worked fine.

Thanks for the help guys....