[Fedora] no entries in /var/log/* - FC3

[Götz Reinicke]

Hi,

I did run the kill command by hand and after that, messages are loged. 
This works for about one or two days, after that, logging stopps again.

So wher to go next?

Regards

Götz

replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net wrote:
> do a copy/paste and run the kill -HUP command by hand (take off the
> part at the end of the line that dumps the output to /dev/null). that
> should help you understand if that's the issue, and if so give hints on
> why it's failing. 
> 
> 
>  
>    - Rick
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> 
>>From: Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>
>>To: Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 04:06:48 PM +0100
>>Subject: Re: [Fedora] no entries in /var/log/* - FC3
>>
>>Everything looks like your discribed and all files ar in the right
>>places. And yes, everything is running by root :-)
>>
>>Because everything is from the original FC3 rpms I#m that confused; a
>>second server with nearly the same sysrem config (SMP, FC3,..) has no
>>problem at all...
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>that means that it's failing when trying to run the postrotate script
>>>in that (syslog) file.
>>>
>>>look carefully at the lines there (/etc/logrotate.d/syslog). it
>>>should look (something) like the following:
>>>
>>>
>>>... list of files to be rotated...
>>> {
>>>    sharedscripts
>>>    postrotate
>>>        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2>
>>>/dev/null || true
>>>    endscript
>>>}
>>>
>>>
>>>where the quotes before "cat" and after "null" are (single)
>>>back-ticks (also the line is wrapped after the "2>" in my output
>>>above).
>>>
>>>make certain that the pathing is correct for everything, and that
>>>your "kill" binary is there (if it isn't other things should have
>>>broken too, but it never hurts to check).
>>>
>>>last, but not least, you are running this (both manually and via
>>>cron) as "root", correct?
>>>
>>>
>>>---------- Original Message ----------
>>>
>>>
>>>>From: Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>
>>>>To: Fedora List <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>>>Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 03:31:15 PM +0100
>>>>Subject: Re: [Fedora] no entries in /var/log/* - FC3
>>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>thanks for the hint, I did a manuall (logrotate -f -v
>>>>/etc/logrotate.conf) logrotate and get an error
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>error: error running shared postrotate script for /var/log/messages
>>>>/var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log
>>>>/var/log/cron
>>>>
>>>>But what causes this error?
>>>>
>>>>syslogd is still running and the pid-file is in the right place
>>>>
>>>>Regards
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>i would suggest running logrotate manually (you'll probably need to
>>>>>use the -f flag to make it actually run), and see if you get any
>>>>>errors or warnings. that *might* give you some ideas or hints
>>>>>
>>>>>i'm assuming that you've confirmed that syslogd is (still) running
>>>>>after  logrotate runs. if it is, do a "kill -HUP" on it. also,
>>>>>check that it's pid file is in the location indicated by the
>>>>>logroate.d/syslog script. if syslogd stops running when logrotate
>>>>>is run, then running logrotate manually should give you a hint of
>>>>>what the problem is.
>>>>>
>>>>>---------- Original Message ----------
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>From: Götz Reinicke <goetz.reinicke at filmakademie.de>
>>>>>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>>>>>>Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 02:48:05 PM +0100
>>>>>>Subject: Re: [Fedora] no entries in /var/log/* - FC3
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Götz Reinicke wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>After a /etc/init.d/syslog restart the logs are written until
>>>>>>>>they  have to be rotated, then no new entries are loged (The
>>>>>>>>empty logfile  is touched). :-((
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Any ideas? What to check?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Make sure /etc/logrotate.d/syslog is actually restarting syslog
>>>>>>> as  well.  Mine looks like this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>><...>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Mine /etc/logrotate.d/syslog looks exactly the same.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>any more ideas?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Regards
>>>>>>-- 
>>>>>>Götz Reinicke
>>>>>>IT Koordinator - IT OfficeNet
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>
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>>
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>>
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