Question: do you have /var mounted on a separate partition? I encountered some weird behavior when I attempted to do so. That is, there were files opened before the mount command was issued, resulting in some weird things like that.
Hendrik Boom wrote: > well, by syslog isn't exactly missing, but ... > > Today my server was mysteriously unresponsive; that is, ssh to its IP > address did not work. > > So I went over to it, and found the screen blanl. > I tried directly into its keyboard (and yes, at this point I had checked > that that power was on and the relevant cables were connected. > No luck. > > I finally rebooted it. (A convenience that's easy to do when it's > physically in your living room). > > It rebooted cleanly, recovered its file systems (quite easy 'cause the > ones I use are EXT4, although there is a Reiser filesystem lurking > somewhere too), and requested a login on its console screen. > > And after that, ssh'ing into it worked again. > > Now this has happened before, about a month ago. > > I decided to investigate and started by looking into /var/log/syslog. > > Which was full of entried from May, none from this month. > And yes, it knows the date is Tue Jul 27 12:19:45 EDT 2021. > > I did a ls -l on syslog* > > april:~# ls -l /var/log/syslog* > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 734459 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 1197017 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog.0 > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 79876 May 13 2013 /var/log/syslog.1.gz > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 127547 May 12 2013 /var/log/syslog.2.gz > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 51821 May 10 2013 /var/log/syslog.3.gz > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 44679 May 9 2013 /var/log/syslog.4.gz > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 46240 May 8 2013 /var/log/syslog.5.gz > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 41297 May 7 2013 /var/log/syslog.6.gz > april:~# > > It looks like nothing has been written to syslog for the last eight > years! > > And in all that time I hadn't noticed. > > It is still running ascii, by the way. I'm pretty sure ascii wasn't > around yet in 2013, back when I was still running Debian. > > So why no system log? > > And, while I'm asking anyway, why no /var/log/mail* since 2013 either? > > What has changed? > What might have changed? > > -- hendrik > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng