Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 13:12:11 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Grant Cooper <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: log files Message-ID: <20020722031211.GB2730@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <009901c2312c$b5c6ec70$2afececd@TCOOPER> References: <200207212214.g6LMEQxc000099@labs.unixhideout.com> <000001c23109$09c55830$0a01a8c0@athlon> <20020722024119.GA2730@k7.mavetju> <009901c2312c$b5c6ec70$2afececd@TCOOPER>
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On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:06:00PM -0600, Grant Cooper wrote:
> I think I made a boo boo. I deleted all the files from var/log thinking I
> would have clean logs. Well, I rebooted but some of the files never
> reapeared. I made a back up just in case.
man syslogd:
For security reasons, syslogd will not append to log files that do not
exist; therefore, they must be created manually before running syslogd.
So the easiest way is:
touch `cat /etc/syslog.conf | awk '{ print $2}' | grep var`
and restart syslogd:
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid`
> Can I expect any problems in the future?
You're not logging anything.
Edwin
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