Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 16:06:22 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Logs not being saved (/var/log/messages, etc)? Message-ID: <20060509150622.GC1517@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <loom.20060509T141818-902@post.gmane.org> References: <loom.20060509T135438-520@post.gmane.org> <loom.20060509T141818-902@post.gmane.org>
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--ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:19:12PM +0000, Matt Bostock wrote: > I think I fixed it guys, thanks for all of your help. >=20 > Syslogd was choking because /var/log/messages didn't exist. I touched tha= t, > restarted and all was working again. I did the same for the others (auth.= log > etc), and things seem ok now. To stop it happening again, take a look at newsyslog.conf(5) and ensure all permissions are correct, and that newsyslog(8) will create a new log file or HUP the interested daemon as necessary. Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEYK/uixf5fBYiFmoRAjo7AKCQT0l2pJmTCTyp/sAVnyfcu5/qrACgvWqI MdgTU8t40IEpfOlzBFiL+Tk= =APfN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ZJcv+A0YCCLh2VIg--
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