On 26/06/07 13:42 +0100, Seán O Sullivan 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. >>> >> >> Firstly, I'd suggest updating to 4.5. >> This is the production machine and has been runing for years, so upgrading OS is not not my first option :) >> Secondly, is /tmp mounted with noexec option? No afaik. root# mount | grep var /dev/hda4 on /var type ext3 (rw) > >forgot to add, check /var/log/messages.* for current syslog messages root# ls -l messages* -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 25 11:11 messages -rw------- 1 root root 32480831 Jun 3 00:04 messages.1.gz -rw------- 1 root root 81601061 May 27 00:13 messages.2.gz -rw------- 1 root root 905460 May 20 00:01 messages.3.gz -rw------- 1 root root 1055604 May 13 00:01 messages.4.gz Note: previous messages.gz was having gigantic size because recent bug in spamassassin, it logs all spampd log thats why I disable it on the syslog.conf. But after few days I notice that messages were always empty, even I restart syslog and then mv and touch messages root# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.0 (Final) No auto update and I never run in manually.