/var/log/messages is empty
Geoffrey Leach
geoff at hughes.net
Sun Apr 19 23:48:54 UTC 2009
On 04/19/2009 02:29:38 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> >> logrotate moves /var/log/messages to /var/log/messages-todaysdate
> >> once
> >> in a
> >> while.
> >>
> >Thanks, but that's not the problem. I've got several rotated logs
> with
> >content, and one without.
>
> I think you may have missed the point: If logrotate swapped it,
> and nothing new has been logged, it could be empty.
>
> # logger Foo
> # tail /var/log/messages
>
> What you get?
root at pvr[7]->logger Foo
root at pvr[8]->tail /var/log/messages
root at pvr[9]->
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