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Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 "Message" Log Not Working
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 "Message" Log Not Working
- From: flash22@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed Feb 14 14:46:51 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On 9 Feb 2001, David wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just mistakenly deleted my /var/log/messages log. I went to zero the file
> and accidentally deleted it. I immediately created a new one and set the same
> permissions, but it doesn't seem to be logging anymore. Is there a fix for my
> blunder?
You have to restart syslog , it's still logging to the now nonexistant
file..
/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog start
(it also writes maillog,secure,spooler..)
gsh