Syslog not running?

[Steven Stern]

After a crash today, I decided to look at /var/log/messages, but it as
empty:

-rw-------. 1 root    root           0 May 15 03:15 messages
-rw-------. 1 root    root     2486698 Apr 24 03:03 messages-20110424
-rw-------. 1 root    root    15123560 May  1 03:50 messages-20110501
-rw-------. 1 root    root      792295 May  8 03:31 messages-20110508
-rw-------. 1 root    root      855351 May 14 16:07 messages-20110515

I restarted rsyslog and it's now chock full of stuff:

 service rsyslog status
rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
	  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service)
	  Active: inactive (dead)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rsyslog.service

Does this indicate it's not enabled on boot?

[root at sds-desk log]# service rsyslog restart
Restarting rsyslog (via systemctl):                        [  OK  ]

[root at sds-desk log]# ll messages
-rw-------. 1 root root 106935 May 16 11:05 messages

Now, it seems to be enabled:

[root at sds-desk log]# service rsyslog status
rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
	  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service)
	  Active: active (running) since Mon, 16 May 2011 11:05:25 -0500; 6min ago
	 Process: 2387 ExecStartPre=/bin/systemctl stop
systemd-kmsg-syslogd.service (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
	Main PID: 2390 (rsyslogd)
	  CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rsyslog.service
		  └ 2390 /sbin/rsyslogd -n -c 5


It shows up in system-config-services, but everything related to
enable/disable is grayed out (even running it as root).

Is this a glitch?  What's the expected behavior of rsyslogd?


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-- Steve