Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 14:07:46 +0200 From: "No@SPAM@mgEDV.net" <nospam@mgedv.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: 'Matt Bostock' <matt@mattbostock.com> Subject: RE: Logs not being saved (/var/log/messages, etc)? Message-ID: <000901c67361$2f5af570$01010101@avalon.lan> In-Reply-To: <loom.20060509T135438-520@post.gmane.org>
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> The usual system logs such as /var/log/messages are not being saved. > /var/log/messages does not exist, but /var/log/messages.0 > (the old rotated > version) does. if theres a rotated log, there should be a source for, too. check permissions on /var/log (eg. schg-flag) maybe there's some odd reason for syslogd not being able to write to it. also, try creating an empty file (touch /var/log/messages; chmod o-r /var/log/messages) and restarting syslogd. you can test logging with the logger-command. if your box is not private (for you only): did you check, if someone removed the file? check for logins, network sessions, strange users with uid 0 in master.passwd, change-date of files in at least /etc. if anything looks strange, change your root-pw, shutdown unnecessary daemons, and take the box off the net if it's possible ,-)
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