On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I have RedHat Linux 7.1, and when the system is initializing I get the following
>message:
> "Starting system logger... FAILED"
> Can someone please tell me what this is about, or what is causing this, or how can I
>fix it?
>
Check whether any of your partitions are 100% full ("df"). If you
cannot log things because there's no space for them, that might cause
your problem, and the cure is to get rid of unnecessary stuff (in, for
example, /var/log or /tmp).
The system logger is started by /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog, which starts
the klogd daemon. There's a klogd man page. If "ps auxw|grep klogd|grep
-v grep" doesn't show klogd to be running, then /var/lock/subsys/syslog
should not exist. I don't know what would happen if the lock exists
before the system is booted. The boot process ought to be able to handle
that situation, but maybe for some reason it can't.
Some things to try: 1) "service syslog restart" 2) If that doesn't get
klogd running, and /var/lock/subsys/syslog is present, delete the lock and
do "service syslog start".
--
Steven Yellin
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