Re: [cobalt-users] /var/log/maillog file empty

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Santiago Montalvan wrote:

> I am going to ask this question one more time, I really would love for
> someone to be able to help me...
>
> I have asked this question before and nobody has been able to help me yet
> but I am going to ask again and hopefully somebody can help me.  The machine
> I am talking about is a Qube3 Professional w/ RAID1, 512MB of RAM.  For some
> reason every Sunday (yes, each and every Sunday) the /var/log/maillog file
> is empty.  It continues to write the log information to maillog.1 instead of
> starting the day with /var/log/maillog.  This is really annoying as I look
> at the SMA reports everyday but on Sundays the SMA report is empty because
> the maillog file is empty and I have no way to fix this but to reboot the
> server and then the maillog file is back to normal.  Should I not reboot the
> server and let it run like this all the way until Monday and then see if on
> Monday the logs start being written to /var/log/maillog like it should?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

you might try restarting syslogd instead of rebooting.
IIRC /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart

This will not fix the problem, but better than a reboot.
is your syslogd restarting periodically?

Gerald
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