>>>>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 * ;-) >>> >>>syslog.conf looks ok, unless: >>> >>>1. the /var partition is full >>>2. the /var partition is no longer writable by root (or whoever >>> user syslog runs as) *very unlikly situation* >>> > IT IS THE CASE GOD!!! > see this
[...] > Error opening log file: /var/log/messages > Called logerr, msg: /var/log/messages > logmsg: syslog.err<43>, flags 4, from boo, msg syslogd: > /var/log/messages: Permission denied Good you found the problem :-) Rgds Ernest _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
