Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 16:04:15 -0400 From: "JJB" <Barbish3@adelphia.net> To: "Matt \"Cyber Dog\" LaPlante" <webmaster@cyberdogtech.com>, "'Matthew Seaman'" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.7 Syslogs Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGMEDLFOAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <20040515173448.1B25943D2F@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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Well since you are new to FBSD and since the syslogd -d commands
shows that you do not have logging specified in /etc/syslog.conf for
the messages file. You just do not know what you are looking at. Who
ever was sysadmin before you probably commented it out for what
ever reason.
By the way I tried using the logger command on my 4.9 system and it
did not write any messages at all. So it is no help in debugging
this problem. I read the man logger info and as usual the man page
is useless. Who ever writes those must work real hard at writing
sentences that convey no meanings.
To verify the conclusion that no logging is enabled for messages
file, first do halt command, power off box, wait 1 minute, power
back on to boot system, then, post the complete contents of these
files.
/var/run/dmesg.boot
/etc/rc.conf
/etc/syslog.conf
/etc/newsylog.conf
/etc/crontab
The output of this command ls -l /var/log/* to see all the
details about your log files.
The output of this command ps ax
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Matt "Cyber
Dog" LaPlante
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 1:34 PM
To: 'Matthew Seaman'; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.7 Syslogs
I tried the logger command, but it didn't reach the messages file
(which is
still empty). Here is the output from the syslogd -d command:
syslogd: bind: Address already in use
logmsg: pri 53, flags 4, from , msg syslogd: bind: Address already
in use
Logging to CONSOLE /dev/console
syslogd: bind: Address already in use
logmsg: pri 53, flags 4, from , msg syslogd: bind: Address already
in use
Logging to CONSOLE /dev/console
can't open /dev/klog (16)
off & running....
init
cfline("local7.crit;local7.err;local7.notice
/var/log/purchasing", f, "*", "*")
cfline("local0.*
/var/log/postgres",
f, "*", "*")
cfline("local2.*
/var/log/qmail/smtpd.log", f, "*", "*")
cfline("local3.*
/var/log/qmail/send", f, "*", "*")
cfline("local4.*
/var/log/qmail/masterlog", f, "*", "*")
cfline("authpriv.*
/var/log/authpriv",
f, "local0", "*")
cfline("security.*
/var/log/security",
f, "local0", "*")
cfline("mail.info
/var/log/maillog",
f, "local0", "*")
cfline("lpr.info
/var/log/lpd-errs",
f, "local0", "*")
cfline("cron.*
/var/log/cron", f,
"local0", "*")
cfline("*.emerg *", f,
"local0",
"*")
cfline("console.info
/var/log/console.log", f, "local0", "*")
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 5 X FILE:
/var/log/purchasing
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 8 X X X X X X X X FILE:
/var/log/postgres
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 8 X X X X X X FILE:
/var/log/qmail/smtpd.log
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 8 X X X X X FILE:
/var/log/qmail/send
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 8 X X X X FILE:
/var/log/qmail/masterlog
X X X X X X X X X X 8 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE:
/var/log/authpriv
(local0)
X X X X X X X X X X X X X 8 X X X X X X X X X X X FILE:
/var/log/security
(local0)
X X 6 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE:
/var/log/maillog
(local0)
X X X X X X 6 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE:
/var/log/lpd-errs
(local0)
X X X X X X X X X 8 X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X FILE:
/var/log/cron
(local0)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X WALL: (local0)
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X 6 X X X X X X X X X X FILE:
/var/log/console.log
(local0)
logmsg: pri 56, flags 4, from compname, msg syslogd: restart
syslogd: restarted
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matthew
Seaman
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 4:56 AM
To: Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.7 Syslogs
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 01:51:40AM -0400, Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante
wrote:
> I've inherited a FreeBSD 4.7 server as part of a system
administration
job.
> Recently I noticed that the syslog files had stopped collecting
data.
This
> includes /var/log/messages and /var/log/console among others. Up
until
some
> time last week, they'd been full of data, but after some unknown
event,
all
> data collection stopped. I did not build/configure the system,
nor am I
> very fluent in the ways of BSD, so I do not know where else to
begin
looking
> for answers. I ran the newsyslog program to regenerate all the
log files.
> It created them, with the single line stating a new log file was
created,
> but aside from that one line they remain empty. I tried manually
restarting
> syslogd, as well as rebooting the whole machine, neither of which
have had
> any effect. I have not manually altered any syslog configuration
info,
and
> I basically have no idea what to try next. I'm a relative noob
when it
> comes to FreeBSD, so I'd appreciate answers in a simple format.
Thanks in
> advance...
Hmmm... that doesn't sound good. Can you use logger(1) to write a
test message into the log files?
% logger -p daemon.info -t TEST "Some test message"
which should appear in /var/log/messages. If it doesn't, look at
/etc/syslog.conf and verify that it is sensible. Then try killing
syslogd and starting it up in debug mode:
# syslogd -d {other syslog flags}
this will not daemonize itself or go into the background and will
print out various debugging information as log messages come in.
Cheers,
Matthew
--
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