Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:59:45 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Mark Hartley <freebsd@drapple.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Syslogd stops working Message-ID: <20010214225944.R62368@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> In-Reply-To: <20010214154342.A48740@router.drapple.com>; from freebsd@drapple.com on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:43:43PM -0800 References: <20010214154342.A48740@router.drapple.com>
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:43:43PM -0800, Mark Hartley wrote: > I have several different FreeBSD servers which I've upgraded recently > through cvsup and rebuilding world due to the bind, ipfw, and ssh holes. > > However, I have one machine which I cvsupped and rebuilt on Jan 29th > which has stopped logging to syslog. I've checked my syslog.conf file > and everything seems fine. I had just been noticing a lack of people > "banging" on my firewall. I got to looking, and syslog has not been > functioning since that point. This is a very serious issue for me > as I've potentially missed several important syslog notices. I checked, > and syslogd is in fact running. > > Any ideas why this is happening and what I can do to remedy it? Run it in debug mode, -d, and if you can't figure it out from there, post the output to the list (this actually may be more of a -questions issue if it turns out to be a configuration problem). Preferably, use logger(1) to send some messages to get logged if none pop up on their own while it is running. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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