Syslog not running?

[James Laska]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 11:12 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> 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?

Did you upgrade your system from F14?  If so, depending on when you
upgraded, you may be seeing
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699198

The current proposed workaround is to run:
 $ systemctl enable rsyslog.service

Thanks,
James

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