/var/log/messages is not being written to.

mccartycp · 11-01-2010, 10:21 AM

I was attempting to get crontab to kick off a daily job, but the job wont start. I opened /var/log/messages and noticed all the logs were from 6 months ago. I cleared the log and then did a tail -f so I could watch it for activity. I then hit my box with an unsuccessful log in attempt. Nothing happened to the log. The uptime of my box is 22 days and the logs that were in it before I cleared it were from months ago.

Is there a daemon I can check or another file I can mod to get logs writing again?

Thanks,
C

mesiol · 11-01-2010, 10:21 AM

Hi,

cron creates is own logfile. Please check /var/log/cron ?

jtlutgen · 11-01-2010, 10:41 AM

Try "ps ax | grep syslog" --- let me know what comes up.

jtlutgen · 11-01-2010, 10:47 AM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-empty-265888/