Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:19:20 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/log/messages empty since June 26 :-/ Message-ID: <4C2DCB38.6030500@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <84ir26h1punkutik1dmlbhd77d2npsqupe@4ax.com> References: <84ir26h1punkutik1dmlbhd77d2npsqupe@4ax.com>
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On 02/07/2010 12:11:16, Gilles wrote:
> Hello
>
> On a FreeBSD 6.3 server sitting in a corner of the office not doing
> much work, I noticed that /var/log/messages was turned over and has
> been empty since 26 June:
>
> # tail /var/log/messages
> Jun 26 16:00:00 freebsd newsyslog[5320]: logfile turned over due to
> size>100K
>
> # ll /var/log/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 78 26 jui 16:00 messages
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8396 26 jui 16:00 messages.0.bz2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8329 30 mar 11:00 messages.1.bz2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8663 2 mar 2009 messages.2.bz2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 9640 20 déc 2008 messages.3.bz2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 6554 17 oct 2008 messages.4.bz2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5825 17 oct 2008 messages.5.bz2
> (jui = June, jul = July)
>
> I don't have enough experience with FreeBSD to understand the cause
> for this, and how to solve it, so would appreciate any suggestion.
Is syslogd running? Restarting syslogd would be a good thing to try in
any case:
# /etc/rc.d/syslogd restart
This should result in some output to the system logs -- if you don't see
that, then your syslog.conf may be broken: syslogd can die silently in
those circumstances. You'll need to run syslogd with the '-d' debugging
flag in addition to what flags you usually use in order to see what the
problem is.
Cheers,
Matthew
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