On 26/06/07 13:42 +0100, Seán O Sullivan wrote:
I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0
bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log.
Firstly, I'd suggest updating to 4.5.
This is the production machine and has been runing for years, so upgrading OS
is not not my first option :)
Secondly, is /tmp mounted with noexec option?
No afaik.
root# mount | grep var
/dev/hda4 on /var type ext3 (rw)
forgot to add, check /var/log/messages.* for current syslog messages
root# ls -l messages*
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 25 11:11 messages
-rw------- 1 root root 32480831 Jun 3 00:04 messages.1.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 81601061 May 27 00:13 messages.2.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 905460 May 20 00:01 messages.3.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 1055604 May 13 00:01 messages.4.gz
Note: previous messages.gz was having gigantic size because recent bug in
spamassassin, it logs all spampd log thats why I disable it on the
syslog.conf. But after few days I notice that messages were always empty,
even I restart syslog and then mv and touch messages
root# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.0 (Final)
No auto update and I never run in manually.
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