On 1/15/21 4:30 PM, Michael wrote:
On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:23:34 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Friday, 15 January 2021 15:08:15 GMT n952162 wrote:
On 1/15/21 10:24 AM, Michael wrote:
On Friday, 15 January 2021 08:47:18 GMT n952162 wrote:
Hello,
can anyone explain this?
I noticed today (15. January) that the
/var/log/{messages,kern.log,etc.}
files on a box were last touched on 22. November.
sysklogd was in the rc-open /started/ state and was running.
The configuration file, /etc/syslog.conf matches completely that file
on
another machine of mine, where the logs are properly updated.
/etc/syslog.d/ was empty on both machines.
I sent the process a HUP signal, as follows
sudo kill -HUP $(cat /var/run/syslogd.pid )
and all the log files were immediately updated and reporting.
I rebooted my machine, and the log files are untouched, it is again
hibernating.
Do you get something like this on your system?
$ rc-update -s -v | grep syslog
syslog-ng | default
and,
$ rc-service -v syslog-ng status
* Executing: /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh
/etc/init.d/
syslog-ng status
* status: started
$ rc-service -v syslog-ng status
* rc-service: service `syslog-ng' does not exist
$ rc-service -v syslog status
* rc-service: service `syslog' does not exist
$ rc-service -v syslogd status
* rc-service: service `syslogd' does not exist
$ rc-service -v sysklogd status
* Executing: /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh
/etc/init.d/sysklogd status
* status: started
$ rc-update -s -v | grep syslog
$ rc-update -s -v | grep sysklog
sysklogd | default sysinit
I ran that as a script on a machine where the logs are properly updated:
01~>bash -x /tmp/test
+ rc-service -v syslog-ng status
* rc-service: service `syslog-ng' does not exist
+ rc-service -v syslog status
* rc-service: service `syslog' does not exist
+ rc-service -v syslogd status
* rc-service: service `syslogd' does not exist
+ rc-service -v sysklogd status
* Executing: /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh
/etc/init.d/sysklogd status
* status: started
+ rc-update -s -v
+ grep syslog
+ rc-update -s -v
+ grep sysklog
sysklogd | default
Substitute your syslog program's name for syslog-ng. Michael did say
"something like."
Yes, quite, other log daemons are available. :-)
It seems your PC on which sysklogd works as expected has its rc script
only on
'default' runlevel, rather than default +sysinit. I don't know if
sysinit is
required. If you remove sysinit and restart sysklogd from a terminal
does it
spew out any errors?
Oh, I missed that sysinit way out there on the left ;-)
It looks like that was it, no errors after removing runlevel sysinit,
and /var/log/messages has like the current time.
Thanks, that was great!
