rsyslogd and services in general

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 02.03.2013 16:22, Tod Thomas wrote:
> Ok, old school here, Saturday morning hacking. What is the new method
> for managing system services? Could someone point me to some good
> documentation? The reason I ask is nothing is being written to
> /var/log/messages and /etc/init.d/ doesn't seem to be a viable option
> anymore. I tried:
>
>
> /sbin/service rsyslog status
> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status rsyslog.service
> rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
> Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled)
> Active: active (running) since Sat, 02 Mar 2013 09:50:50 -0500; 24min ago
> Main PID: 2584 (rsyslogd)
> CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rsyslog.service
> └ 2584 /sbin/rsyslogd -n -c 5
>
>
> Looks good but logger "test";ls -lt /var/log/messages shows:
>
> -rw-------. 1 root root 0 Feb 24 10:48 /var/log/messages
>
> I must be missing something. TIA.
>

Maybe /var is full?


Mateusz Marzantowicz