/var/log/messages is empty

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 08:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 08:54 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > According to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699198 it
> > depends when you did the upgrade. Early birds got screwed on this one.
> 
> I knew there would be a reward for procrastination.....  :-)

Yes, Procrastinate Now!

All the same, I can't help wondering why this wasn't considered a
blocker, given that it was known about before F15 was released. In fact
it's not even mentioned in the Release Notes.

The upshot is that many people are running systems with a bug that
they'll only notice when they need to look at a log and it's not there.
In my case I lost three weeks worth of /var/log/messages.

Note that a simple yum update does not fix this.

poc