[CentOS] Syslog

[Sam Drinkard]

William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 15:30 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:
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>> William L. Maltby wrote:
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>>> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 15:02 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:
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>>>> Jason Bradley Nance wrote:
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>>> Your syslogd config file still intact?
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>> Yes, /etc/syslogd.conf is still intact, and nothing has been changed at 
>> all.  The problem apparently started at least on May 28, which is the 
>> date of /var/log/messages.4, and it and all the rest are size of 0.  
>> Just wondering if the last update I did had something to do with it.  
>> According to the yum log,  a new kernel was installed on the 30th, and 
>> between there and now, there have been a few updates to spamassassin, 
>> mysql, mailman, mysql-server, kdebase and sendmail.  Nothing else updated.
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> Maybe a "find -type f -newer SomeFileName" in the /etc and /var
> directories will get a pointer for you? If it's related to that install.
>
> And maybe a "find / -name '*messag*'" just in case it's off in some
> other (chrooted) directory? Any rpmsave or rpmnew files laying around
> that might have been needed? Done a "dmesg"
>   

Yep.. just did a find, and there are all kind of message* files, many of 
which I know what are, others I have no clue, but I suspect they are 
OK.   dmesg does not give any clues either. 

How about a lock file somewhere?  Lemme check that....