Thanks Jesse and Doc--I will keep this in mind next time I need to flush this out. I didn't realize I needed to restart the syslog service after doing this. Everything is back to normal now. Thanks! Corey From: Jesse Keating <hosting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Organization: j2Solutions To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Maillog GONE! Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:21:22 -0800 Reply-To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx On Wednesday 12 March 2003 20:55, Corey Head uttered: > OK...I did a bad thing. I decided my maillog was too full, so I "cp > maillog maillog3112003" and then "touch maillog" and made sure it had > the same permissions. Well...it seemed fine, but nothing is getting > logged now. I'm fairly new at this Linux thing...so can someone help > me out on this? The trick here is not to actually remove the first file. One of these will do (although logrotate should do this anyway). cat maillog >> maillog3112003; echo >maillog File says there, but becomes empty. Contents were dumped into the dated file. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:31:16 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Maillog GONE! From: <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx On Wednesday March 12, 2003 Corey Head wrote: > OK...I did a bad thing. I decided my maillog was too full, so I "cp > maillog maillog3112003" and then "touch maillog" and made sure it had > the same permissions. Well...it seemed fine, but nothing is getting > logged now. I'm fairly new at this Linux thing...so can someone help > me out on this? Corey, Assuming you've alread done these: # chmod 600 /var/log/maillog # chown root:root /var/log/maillog I'll guess your next step should be: # service syslog restart --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
