On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:08 PM, onay <ronald.santosa at gmail.com> wrote: > > But only that what I get from /var/log/messages, nothing else. > > Best regards. You'll often see this when someone manually clears the messages file improperly. For example, instead of doing something like: "cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages" or ">/var/log/messages" they do an "rm /var/log/messages". Until syslog is restarted the file won't clear.