[CentOS] Syslog
William L. Maltby
BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Tue Jun 27 20:04:57 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 16:00 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:
>
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> >
> >> <snip>
> There is no way this machine could be compromised from outside. It just
> can't happen. Plenty of i-nodes, plenty of disk space, no quotas, all
> the lock files are correct, directory perms are OK, file perms are OK,
> etc. It may be time to reboot anyhow and see if it comes back, or if
> something pops up during the reboot -- hang the run -- I need the log
> files to make sure some other software is working, and it appears that
> the logging for it is bombed too, even tho it's got it's own logging
> facility, it does use syslog to write. Have tried with and without it
> active, and no joy.
>
> There's gotta be something strange.. now that I think about it, my daily
> log got really short sometime back, but don't remember exactly when. I
> assumed it was due to stopping a lot of processes. Hmmm.... someone
> tell me what processes besides syslog and dbus are required for it.. I
> may have stepped on my thingy myself!
The last thing I can think of, barring kernel problems or compromise...
[wild-bill at wlmlfs08 ~]$ ls -dl /var/log
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jun 25 04:02 /var/log
> <snip sig stuff>
--
Bill
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