[lug] Empty boot and message files in var log?

[Hugh Brown]

IIRC,  minilogd is what is started when syslogd is off.  

service syslog start

Should help the situation.

chkconfig --list syslog will tell you which run levels it is set to
start in.

Hugh


On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 12:45, Elyse Grasso wrote:
> On my laptop, where things are getting logged properly, klogd and syslogd are 
> running. On the server,  only something named minilogd is running.
> 
> As far as the named problems: the dns servers at my employer's ISP are not 
> reporting the existence of mail.releaseteam.com reliably. Checking whether 
> there are problems in the dns servers in my local network is kind of 
> difficult with no messages in the logs.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 27 March 2002 10:36 am, you wrote:
> > Elyse> I have a mysterious situation on my Linux server (KRUD 7.2).
> > 
> > Elyse> Can anyone suggest why the boot.log and messages files in
> > Elyse> /var/log should contain nothing since Feb 25?
> > 
> > is syslogd and klogd running? 
> > Is there disk space on that partition? 
> > 
> > Elyse> Is there any place else I can look for information about named
> > Elyse> problems?
> > 
> > what sort of named problems? google is good if you have a specific
> > error... 
> > 
> > kevin
> > 
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