Files in /var/adm as daemon.log, messages, auth.log don't get updated this morning. Here's the rest of a ls -ltr in /var/adm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 May 19 06:47 daemon.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 May 19 06:47 debug -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 May 19 06:47 daemon.log.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 May 19 06:47 debug.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 May 19 06:47 messages -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 0 May 19 06:47 messages.0 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 May 19 06:47 auth.log -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 May 19 06:47 auth.log.0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 19 06:50 smail -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 11144 May 19 08:59 wtmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 498 May 19 09:05 diald.log What's even more strange is that the xconsole window has all the relevant information. Here are the last lines: May 19 09:05:33 miles pppd[9109]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 May 19 09:05:33 miles pppd[9109]: Using interface ppp0 May 19 09:05:33 miles pppd[9109]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS3 May 19 09:05:37 miles pppd[9109]: local IP address 130.15.126.201 May 19 09:05:37 miles pppd[9109]: remote IP address 130.15.126.55 May 19 09:05:37 miles diald[27052]: New addresses: local 130.15.126.201, remote 130.15.126.55. May 19 09:10:07 miles in.comsat[9171]: connect from localhost May 19 09:23:33 miles su: (to root) on /dev/ttyp1 Any idea what's wrong? Is that a sysklogd problem? Or a savelog problem? System info is as this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/adm> uname -a Linux miles 1.3.98 #1 Tue May 7 16:58:31 EDT 1996 i586 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/adm> w 9:27am up 11 days, 14:59, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.01 User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what edd ttyp0 8:59am w [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/adm> dpkg -l syslogd libc5 smail Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii syslogd 1.3-2 Kernel and system logging daemons. ii libc5 5.2.18-6 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr ii smail 3.1.29.1-21 Electronic mail transport system. Thanks for all pointers, Dirk -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
