From: T. Horsnell (tsh@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 06:35:33 EST
Hi all,
Logging into syslog.dated seems to have stopped on
my 5.1B system on Feb 17th at around 11.27am:
# ls -l /var/adm/syslog.dated/
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root adm 512 Feb 15 11:26 15-Feb-11:26
drwxr-xr-x 2 root adm 512 Feb 16 11:27 16-Feb-11:27
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root adm 12 Feb 16 11:27 current -> 16-Feb-11:27
# ls -l /var/adm/syslog.dated/current/
total 10040
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 60627 Feb 17 11:24 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 317782 Feb 17 11:27 daemon.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 10598 Feb 17 11:15 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 745 Feb 16 18:20 lpr.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 9855365 Feb 17 11:27 mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 7697 Feb 17 11:27 syslog.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Feb 16 11:27 user.log
syslogd is running:
# ps -ef | grep syslogd
root 581 1 0.0 Jan 14 ?? 14:54.54 /usr/sbin/syslogd -e
plenty of disk space:
# df -k /var
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk/dsk0d 1969183 940584 831680 54% /var
What could cause this?
What is it that causes the logs to rotate anyway? I cant see
anything in root's crontab to do this.
Is it time for a reboot?
Also, when I look at /etc/syslogd.conf, it seems to be set up
to log into the wrong place - shouldnt stuff be going into
/var/adm/syslog.dated/current/... and not /var/adm/syslog.dated/...
Cheers,
Terry.
# syslogd config file
#
# facilities: kern user mail daemon auth syslog lpr binary
# priorities: emerg alert crit err warning notice info debug
kern.debug /var/adm/syslog.dated/kern.log
user.debug /var/adm/syslog.dated/user.log
mail.debug /var/adm/syslog.dated/mail.log
daemon.debug /var/adm/syslog.dated/daemon.log
auth.debug /var/adm/syslog.dated/auth.log
syslog.debug /var/adm/syslog.dated/syslog.log
lpr.info /var/adm/syslog.dated/lpr.log
msgbuf.err /var/adm/crash/msgbuf.savecore
kern.debug /var/adm/messages
kern.debug /dev/console
*.emerg *
# %LGT611_BEGIN% - DO NOT MODIFY OR DELETE (Wed Sep 3 13:20:50 2003)
# The following lets NetWorker use the syslog facility
daemon.notice /dev/console
daemon.notice /nsr/logs/messages
daemon.notice operator
local0.notice /nsr/logs/summary
local0.alert root, operator
# %LGT611_END% - DO NOT MODIFY OR DELETE
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