On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Jay Leafey <jay.leafey at mindless.com> wrote: > Frank Ling wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> My both CentOS 5 servers have logging problems. Logs such as messages, >> boot.log, kernel, spooler, and tallylog in /var/log directory are all 0 >> size. [...] > I've had something similar happen a couple of times after an update. In my > case the /etc/services file got it's security context clobbered when some > package tried to update it's contents. When logrotate ran, the syslog > daemon couldn't open /etc/services because of the error and I ended up with > a bunch of empty log files. Maybe /var/log context? > restorecon -R -n -v /etc restorecon -R -n -v /var/log You can force a global relabel: touch /.autorelabel and then reboot... -- Marcelo "¿No será acaso que ésta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida?" (Mafalda)