Re: FreeBSD 4.7 Syslogs
From: Matthew Seaman (m.seaman_at_infracaninophile.co.uk)
Date: 05/15/04
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Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 09:56:21 +0100 To: Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante <webmaster@cyberdogtech.com>
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 01:51:40AM -0400, Matt Cyber Dog LaPlante wrote:
> I've inherited a FreeBSD 4.7 server as part of a system administration job.
> Recently I noticed that the syslog files had stopped collecting data. This
> includes /var/log/messages and /var/log/console among others. Up until some
> time last week, they'd been full of data, but after some unknown event, all
> data collection stopped. I did not build/configure the system, nor am I
> very fluent in the ways of BSD, so I do not know where else to begin looking
> for answers. I ran the newsyslog program to regenerate all the log files.
> It created them, with the single line stating a new log file was created,
> but aside from that one line they remain empty. I tried manually restarting
> syslogd, as well as rebooting the whole machine, neither of which have had
> any effect. I have not manually altered any syslog configuration info, and
> I basically have no idea what to try next. I'm a relative noob when it
> comes to FreeBSD, so I'd appreciate answers in a simple format. Thanks in
> advance...
Hmmm... that doesn't sound good. Can you use logger(1) to write a
test message into the log files?
% logger -p daemon.info -t TEST "Some test message"
which should appear in /var/log/messages. If it doesn't, look at
/etc/syslog.conf and verify that it is sensible. Then try killing
syslogd and starting it up in debug mode:
# syslogd -d {other syslog flags}
this will not daemonize itself or go into the background and will
print out various debugging information as log messages come in.
Cheers,
Matthew
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