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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