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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!eru.mt.luth.se!newsfeed2.luth.se!news.luth.se!erix.ericsson.se!erinews.ericsson.se!news.seinf.abb.se!news.mdh.se!columba.udac.uu.se!du.se!news.kth.se!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!199.171.20.9!news.nkn.net!news.panther.net!nemesis!hammy!news-in.iadfw.net!news.gymnet.com!LSNT1!lsbsdi6.lights peed.net!news.silcom.com!news.genuity.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!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: 20 Message-ID: <0C2FB4B10806BB2F.D9513877008B1196.1FC883619C3E227B@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <338E60FE.8B@OntheNet.com.au> References: <338bb125.441417284@207.126.101.81> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com 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:42209 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