[NTLUG:Discuss] RH7 not writing /var/log/messages

[Neil Aggarwal]

I have a RH7 server that is not writing to /var/log/messages.
It was doing that before, but it quit on the 1st of the month.

I dont even know where to start looking at this problem.

I check /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and it has an entry for 
/var/log/messages:
/var/log/messages {
    rotate 5
    weekly
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2>
/dev/null || t
rue
    endscript
}

I noticed that this seems to kill the syslog process 
after rotating the logs, so I rebooted the server, but 
that did not help.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
	Neil.

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