FC5: syslog not logging?
Craig Goodyear
cjhs22a at swbell.net
Sun May 21 22:17:30 UTC 2006
Joel Gomberg wrote:
> Craig Goodyear wrote:
>> It appears that syslog has stopped working since I restarted my FC5
>> server yesterday, about 24 hours ago. There have not been any entries
>> made in the following log files since the shut down yesterday: cron,
>> maillog, messages, rkhunter.log, or secure.
>>
>> syslogd and klogd are shown to be running. When the server is now
>> shut down, the shut down of system logger is shown to fail.
>
> I encountered this situation recently. In my case, at least, I traced
> it down to vmware modifying /etc/services, which then lost its proper
> selinux context. There were entries in my audit.log denying permission
> to syslogd. After issuing a restorecon /etc/services, the problem was
> resolved.
>
> --
> Joel
>
Thanks for the information. I did installed vmware server beta several
days ago. However, yesterday was the first system shutdown since the
installation. Running restorecon /etc/services and restarting syslog
got things back to logging. Thanks again for the fast reply.
Craig
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