youdid not in fact delete the message file.
as this file was open by syslogd, you only got rid of the inode pointer
but it is still open by syslogd and syslogd is still writing to it. (that
is needed in a multi-user / multi-process system).
tell syslog to restart by issuing a kill -HUP on it. that should do.
(if it does not then restart syslogd)
pascal
-----Original Message-----
From: David Churchill [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 3:41 AM
To: linux-newbie list
Subject: Restoring log files
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?
Thanks in advance,
David Churchill
