beast wrote: > I have one centos 4.0 server which /var/log/messages was always empty (0 > bytes). I wonder what has been blocking the syslog to write the log. > > Other (syslog) log files are fine, only messages. > > /etc/syslog.conf: > # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. > # Don't log private authentication messages! > *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none;spampd.none -/var/log/messages How is the selinux stuff on /var/log/messages? # ll -Z /var/log/messages -rw------- root root system_u:object_r:var_log_t /var/log/messages -Andy