On September 1993 plus 3567 days Graeme J. Hosking wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I just noticed that syslod is failing on startup, but klogd is > starting "[OK]". As klogd uses syslogd so the result is absolutely > no logging on my firewall machine. > > Strangely, however, the syslogd process is actually running. I can > start it manually from a terminal with debugging switched on and it > shows connections being opened and closed as other processes try to > create log entries. All log files under /var/log/ have a timestamp > of 4:02 AM this morning (June 8th) but contain 0 bytes. So I'm > thinking maybe the logrotate has screwed things up somehow? The > archive log files are all dated from 3 days ago (June 5th), even > though I'm sure logrotate is supposed to run nightly (it's living in > /etc/cron.daily on my system). > > I've also checked my /etc/syslog.conf file. I've not tinkered with > anything in here since install but I thought I'd check and it all > looks good to me. > > Any pointers would be appreciated as I've run out of ideas?
Check the integrity of the binary...sounds like a cracked box to
me.
Vox
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