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From: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Iglu Mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: System Logs
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, debys wrote:
>
> > From: Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, debys wrote:
> > >
> > > > > try
> > > > > chkconfig --list syslog
> > > >
> > > > syslog 0:off1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
> > >
> > > Now: is it running?
> > >
> > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog status
> >
> > syslog dead but pid file exists
> >
> > >
> > > If not: try starting it:
> > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
> >
> > Starting system logger : [FAILED]
> > Starting kernel logger:
>
> So apply standard debugging techniques:
>
> man syslogd shows that there is a -d switch for debug.
>
> See what parameters are used in the init.d script. In my machine it is:
> daemon syslogd -m 0
> daemon is a function used in redhat's init.d scripts, and is basically a
> wrapper for running the command after it.
>
> so try running:
>
> syslogd -m 0
>
> or maybe:
>
> syslog -m 0 -d
>
> and see if you get some more information.
I did not succeed in submiting syslog with the -d parameter, but
somehow I tried to
start again syslog by - /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
and it succeed.
After I wrote: /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog status
and got syslogd running
klogd running
but still - nothing is written to log files.
Thank you,
Deby
>
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> Tzafrir Cohen
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