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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!corolla.OntheNet.com.au!not-for-mail From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: /var/log/messages stopped??? Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:09:18 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 19 Message-ID: <338E60FE.8B@OntheNet.com.au> References: <338bb125.441417284@207.126.101.81> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: dan@okdirect.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41853 Daniel Walton wrote: > > I have been doing some work on a FreeBSD system that required me to > change the root crontab. I first checked the root crontab but I > didn't find anything in it. Maybe I didn't look good enough because > about the same time I changed the root crontab the /var/log/messages > file stopped updating. Is this related to the crontab and how do I > get this going again? No, no relation at all. The file "/var/log/messages" is written to by syslogd which gets it's input from the "/dev/log" device. You havn't played with anything in /dev or managed to kill of syslogd by any chance? Also, if you want to manually 'rotate' the messages file, you need to rename the existing one, and then _EXPLICITELY_ create a new one via touch (or whatever) before HUPing syslogd. Tony