Hello buddies hope you are still in the moods of helping :-) .
Was wondering what on earth can stop syslogd from working.I recall 2 months back was messing around my 'test' machine that happens to be my desktop too.But of recent I nolonger see new logs :-( .
Hope I wasn't rooted ;-)

See output below

[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cat syslog.conf
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.*                                                 /dev/console

# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                /var/log/messages

# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.*                                              /var/log/secure

# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*                                                  /var/log/maillog


# Log cron stuff
cron.*                                        /var/log/cron

# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg                                                 *

# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
uucp,news.crit                                          /var/log/spooler

# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.*                                                /var/log/boot.log

[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# cat secure
Oct 10 08:34:25 pixmail userhelper[2819]: running '/sbin/reboot' with root privileges on behalfof 'root'
Oct 10 08:35:01 pixmail sshd[1927]: Received signal 15; terminating.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]#     
Interesting! what was terminating what  :-)   and who gave authority to that program (userhelper) to reboot on behalf of root!!.Can someone advise  what might have happened to syslog?

Strange but true ------->[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# /sbin/syslogd
                                    syslogd: Already running.

And nothing much from selinux side
<cough> it's dirsty!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# /usr/sbin/sestatus
SELinux status:         enabled
SELinuxfs mount:        /selinux
Current mode:           enforcing
Mode from config file:  enforcing
Policy version:         19
Policy from config file:targeted

Policy booleans:
allow_execmem           active
allow_execmod           active
allow_execstack         active
allow_kerberos          inactive
allow_ypbind            inactive
dhcpd_disable_trans     inactive
httpd_builtin_scripting active
httpd_can_network_connectinactive
httpd_disable_trans     inactive
httpd_enable_cgi        active
httpd_enable_homedirs   active
httpd_ssi_exec          active
httpd_tty_comm          inactive
httpd_unified           active
mysqld_disable_trans    inactive
named_disable_trans     inactive
named_write_master_zonesinactive
nscd_disable_trans      inactive
ntpd_disable_trans      inactive
portmap_disable_trans   inactive
postgresql_disable_transinactive
read_default_t          active
snmpd_disable_trans     inactive
squid_connect_any       inactive
squid_disable_trans     inactive
syslogd_disable_trans   inactive
use_nfs_home_dirs       inactive
use_samba_home_dirs     inactive
winbind_disable_trans   inactive
ypbind_disable_trans    inactive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]#                       
Thanks for ya time but please need my box surveillance system up during the holiday.And sorry for coloring it's festive season :-)
Merry-xmas
Ronny      
                                                            
                         
                      
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