On 26/06/07 13:40 +0100, Andy Green wrote: >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 I did not enable SELinux stuff (SELINUX=disabled) root# ll -Z /var/log/messages Sorry, this option can only be used on a SELinux kernel.