On Tuesday 26 June 2007, beast wrote: > 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 > Is it possible you broke your syslog.conf file? You could always try reinstalling the file from the RPM. Shawn _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos