Re: [CentOS] Empty /var/log/messages

2009-12-13 Thread Larry Brower
onay wrote: Hi all, I don't know if anybody already ask this question. Sorry if I repost it again. I googling already, but don't find any clue. I'm using centos 5.3, but why the /var/log/messages is empty. Even the sylogd daemon is run. Me already compare /etc/syslog.conf with another centos

Re: [CentOS] Empty /var/log/messages

2009-12-13 Thread onay
Hi Larry The permission is -rw--- 1 root root same with the another log in /var/log And there is alot of output in dmesg. And I already restart the daemon too. I also try: # logger -p daemon.warn This is only a test. And in the /var/log/messages # tail -f messages Dec 13 04:02:39 server2

Re: [CentOS] Empty /var/log/messages

2009-12-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 9:08 PM, onay ronald.sant...@gmail.com wrote: But only that what I get from /var/log/messages, nothing else. Best regards. You'll often see this when someone manually clears the messages file improperly. For example, instead of doing something like: cat /dev/null