On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Robert Slade wrote:
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 16:33 +0100, Alain Spineux wrote:
On 10/28/07, Robert Slade centos@likley.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 13:02 +0100, Alain Spineux wrote:
I have this in my syslog.conf :
# Save boot messages also to boot.log local7.*
Mine says:
# Save boot messages also to boot.log local7.* /var/log/boot.log
Yes my cut&paste was a little lazy !
But did you check dmesg for kernel messages ?
regards
dmesg only lists messages from prior to update too :-(.
dmesg display the kernel internal buffer. It should be emptied when rebooting ! It is impossible to see messages prior the last reboot !
What about your other log file ? /var/log/messages is filled normaly ?
Thanks for the reply
Rob
On 10/28/07, Robert Slade centos@likley.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
I have just updated from CentOS 4 to 5 and I am seeing a problem with udev during booting, but I am unable to track it down as it looks like the boot.log is not working. The file is there but empty and the previous log only lists events up to the point at which I upgraded.
syslog.conf looks ok to me in so much as there is an entry pointing to /var/log/boot.log.
Any suggestions as to what I should be looking at?
Rob
Both dmesg and boot.log do not have any entries from before the update.
/var/log/messages appears to have normal entries ie from today but there are no error messages.
I have checked syslog it is running
Just a thought, rpm -V sysklogd. See what you get. Also have you run ckrootkit or similar on the machine?
I know you said this started after an update and most likely you are correct but it is just a thought. You never know what kind of coincidence you might run into.
Regards,