On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 17:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 05/05/2013 04:45 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > When I tried to troubleshoot that problem, I discovered > > that /var/log/messages* and some other files were empty. It turns out > > that syslogd was dead. I've found that it simply doesn't start on boot, > > but it starts fine when I start it by hand. dmesg and boot.log appear > > normal AFAICT, though there is nothing in them related to syslog. > > Try this as root: > > systemctl enable syslog.service > > I'm guessing that it either got disabled, or wasn't enabled in the first > place. In fact, I'm not sure, but I think it's not enabled by default, > but my memory could easily be wrong. Yes, I got that part, thanks. No clue why it was disabled. > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org