[CentOS] Syslog

Tue Jun 27 20:04:57 UTC 2006
William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com>

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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