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The Monday 2007-07-16 at 21:17 -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> Dumb luck, but noticed that syslog-ng was not starting. I commented
> prior about this. What I *didn't* say was that 'rcsyslog start' did
> not start syslog-ng.
Ah!
> Further searching revealed that syslog-ng was not referenced in
> /etc/sysconfig/syslog. I have a prior install of 10.1 on another
> drive for reference. Compared the syslog files and wrote the
> differences to /etc/sysconfig/syslog. Now going from runlevel 1 to 3
> starts syslog-ng and the firewall logging has returned.
Weird.
> Another revelation, the change time on /etc/sysconfig/syslog was 11
> July, not the 13th where the firewall logging halted. I surmise that
> syslog was not stopped and failed to restart until I went to runlevel
> 1 to try to recover from the system thinking there was no free space
> on /home ????
Probably so. Doing that forces the daemon to reload, and fail. Till then,
the change was not applied... but who/what changed the syslog conf?
>
> What generates /etc/sysconfig/syslog as rpm -qf doesn't know?
Dunno... it must be generated by some script.
About the dissapearing space, I think it might be similar to what I
comented on my previous email: files were deleted while still opened, so
the change was not written to disk till their proceses died. Something of
the sort, anyway.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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