Hi,
I did run the kill command by hand and after that, messages are loged. This works for about one or two days, after that, logging stopps again.
So wher to go next?
Regards
Götz
replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
do a copy/paste and run the kill -HUP command by hand (take off the
part at the end of the line that dumps the output to /dev/null). that
should help you understand if that's the issue, and if so give hints on
why it's failing.
- Rick
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From: Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Fedora List <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 04:06:48 PM +0100 Subject: Re: [Fedora] no entries in /var/log/* - FC3
Everything looks like your discribed and all files ar in the right places. And yes, everything is running by root :-)
Because everything is from the original FC3 rpms I#m that confused; a second server with nearly the same sysrem config (SMP, FC3,..) has no problem at all...
Regards
replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
that means that it's failing when trying to run the postrotate script in that (syslog) file.
look carefully at the lines there (/etc/logrotate.d/syslog). it should look (something) like the following:
... list of files to be rotated... { sharedscripts postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript }
where the quotes before "cat" and after "null" are (single) back-ticks (also the line is wrapped after the "2>" in my output above).
make certain that the pathing is correct for everything, and that your "kill" binary is there (if it isn't other things should have broken too, but it never hurts to check).
last, but not least, you are running this (both manually and via cron) as "root", correct?
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From: Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: Fedora List <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 03:31:15 PM +0100 Subject: Re: [Fedora] no entries in /var/log/* - FC3
Hi,
thanks for the hint, I did a manuall (logrotate -f -v /etc/logrotate.conf) logrotate and get an error
error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron
But what causes this error?
syslogd is still running and the pid-file is in the right place
Regards
replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
i would suggest running logrotate manually (you'll probably need to use the -f flag to make it actually run), and see if you get any errors or warnings. that *might* give you some ideas or hints
i'm assuming that you've confirmed that syslogd is (still) running after logrotate runs. if it is, do a "kill -HUP" on it. also, check that it's pid file is in the location indicated by the logroate.d/syslog script. if syslogd stops running when logrotate is run, then running logrotate manually should give you a hint of what the problem is.
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From: Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 02:48:05 PM +0100 Subject: Re: [Fedora] no entries in /var/log/* - FC3
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
Götz Reinicke wrote:
After a /etc/init.d/syslog restart the logs are written until they have to be rotated, then no new entries are loged (The empty logfile is touched). :-((
Any ideas? What to check?
Make sure /etc/logrotate.d/syslog is actually restarting syslog as well. Mine looks like this:
<...>
Mine /etc/logrotate.d/syslog looks exactly the same.
any more ideas?
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