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Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 "Message" Log Not Working



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