syslog stopped logging on x86_64?
Thomas Cameron
thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Fri May 13 17:24:42 UTC 2005
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 10:04 -0700, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> Ever since updating on the morning of May 10th to the latest
> development packages, my x86_64 machine has not been logging anything
> to syslog. syslogd and klogd are both running, there is plenty of
> free space in /var, and I have not touched syslog.conf for a month.
> I first noticed this problem under kernel 1287 smp, but it persists
> under 1290 smp.
>
> Is anyone else experiencing this? On two other FC4 boxes (both
> i386), syslog is running fine.
>
> Another possibly related problem is that an 'ls -l' in /var/log was
> showing lastlog as being 1.2 TB. df reported only ~700MB used in /
> var (which seems more correct, especially since /var is only 4GB
> large, making it impossible to have a 1.2TB file on it). I removed
> the lastlog file and touched a new one. It is now showing up as 5.5
> MB...
>
> # uname -a
> Linux hell 2.6.11-1.1290_FC4smp #1 SMP Mon May 9 19:28:09 EDT 2005
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -Jeff
>
I think Alex Dalloz answered this just a few minutes ago on the FC list:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=110968943015848&w=2
Thomas
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