Var/log/messages file are empty

Garry T. Williams gtwilliams at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 12:55:25 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 14:11:15 antonio.montagnani at alice.it wrote:
> I checked all files in var/log and in particular I found these files are 0 
> bytes.
> 
> How is it possible??

Are you running F15?

Try systemctl restart syslog.target .  There was a bug in F15 that
caused this.  I can't remember the fix, though.  You might try
systemctl enable syslog.service .

-- 
Garry Williams



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