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Hello, I have a server with Red Hat AS 2.1, and the file message is not being updated by syslog service. I restarted the syslog service but I couldn't solve the problem. Please, do you have any suggestion with this task? Thank you in advance.
[09:28:30] root-pgccmail:/var/log# cat /etc/syslog.conf
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.* /dev/console
# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;* /var/log/messages
# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.* /var/log/secure
# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.* /var/log/maillog
# Log cron stuff
cron.* /var/log/cron
# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg *
# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.* /var/log/boot.log
Hmmm... the last command shows that /var/log/messages is not opened by syslogd. How did you restart the syslog daemon? Try again using the following command
Code:
pkill -SIGHUP syslogd
this will re-initialize syslogd forcing it to re-read the configuration file. Also check for the presence of /dev/log and issue the following command to see if it is opened by some process
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