syslog File not updating

[Ali Imran Abbas]

The syslog.log file on my hpunx server is not getting updated since Jan 15, 2008. Here is the output of ll:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 74076 Nov 18 01:08 OLDsyslog.log
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 11462870 Jan 18 10:34 ftpd.log
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1382681 Jan 18 10:00 mail.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 558476 Jan 15 13:54 syslog.log
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 1313721 Jan 18 10:27 xferlog

I have checked the syslogd, its working:

ps -afe | grep syslogd
root 1476 1 0 Nov 18 ? 0:35 /usr/sbin/syslogd -D

Can any one give me an idea how to troubleshoot and finx that problem, please?

[John Poff]

Try using the "logger" command to see if you can write a test message to the syslog file:

logger "Some test message"

If that doesn't show up in the syslog file, you could try stopping and starting the syslog daemon.

I've seen this happen sometimes when /var gets filled up.

JP

[Mridul Shrivastava · Accepted solution]

Try the following to fix the issue:

# ps â ef |grep syslogd |grep â v grep
# kill â HUP â syslogd PIDâ
# logger â t test â p info â test messageâ
# tail /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

[Mridul Shrivastava]

you have assigned points to 2 of 97 responses .

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[Mridul Shrivastava]

there were some junk characters in the last post, please find the correct one:

# ps â ef |grep syslogd |grep â v grep
# kill â HUP â syslogd PIDâ
# logger â t test â p info â test messageâ
# tail /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

[S.Rider]

I've seen it happen where /var fills up, and you have to kick the syslogd process before it will start updating again.

[Jeeshan]

you can check if u'r syslog is updating or not?

try to ftp the server and provide the wrong password.