Stop and restart syslogd . It's still trying to write to the old "messages"
file, which it had open when you deleted it. 

At 06:06 PM 6/8/99 -0700, David Churchill wrote:
>I thought I was cleaning up my huge messages log in /var/log  by deleting
>it.  I re-created it with: touch messages but now syslogd doesn't seem to be
>writing to it.  How do I fix this?
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