On 12/08/07, darrell pfeifer <darrellpf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 8/12/07, Christopher Brown <snecklifter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 12/08/07, Christopher Stone <chris.stone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > My syslog has stopped working, here are the last entries from the log: > > > http://tkmame.retrogames.com/last_messages > > > > > > My yum log shows I updated selinux and sysklogd packages that day, but > > > I tried reverting these packages and even tried booting into the -33 > > > kernel, but no matter what I tried, I cannot get the system logger to > > > function any more!!! > > > > > > Is anyone else having these problems with a fully updated F7 system? > > > Or have any ideas on what might be going on? > > > > You will probably get a better response either on fedoraforums.org or > > the fedora-test list. This is for development of Fedora and as no > > other users are reporting similar issues it is safe to say yours is an > > isolated case. When you do re-post, I would add as much debugging info > > as you can. > > > > Oh sure, scare him off. I was listening for a useful answer. Not very proactive but it just might work ;) > I've seen this behaviour on my Fedora systems more than once. My first > reaction was that it was a rootkit of some sort. I was teaching Linux > class a month ago and one of the students also complained of a similar > problem on her personal Fedora system. So my experience says it isn't > an isolated incident. Not in the great scheme of things but for F8T1 it appears to be. > Trying to find debugging info is also tough. /var/log/messages doesn't > report anything. dmesg doesn't show anything either. I meant debugging info for others to see. Output from a kernel logging daemon terminal restart would be good. Output from dmesg would be good. I'm guessing FAILED and nothing respectively. How about trashing /var/log/messages* and then touch /var/log/messages? Are the systems running low on disk space due to excessive/verbose logging? Blah, blah, blah... Regards Chris -- http://www.chruz.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
