nullifying /var/adm/messages

[aruns_s]

Hi all,
Good morning....
I hv nullified /var/adm/messages yesterday due to space constrains. However after that, none of the messages are getting logged to /var/adm/messages.I tried with 'logger' no luck, but syslog is getting updated with recent messages.. /var/adm/messages carries yesterday's time stamp./etc/syslog.conf file is also pasted here for ur reference..I hv also restarted syslogd.
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root 28381 1 0 20:15:15 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd -DN

# date
Fri Feb 23 14:31:09 EDT 2007
# ll /var/adm/messages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 22 21:28 /var/adm/messages
# ll /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32605 Feb 23 14:24 /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log


auth.debug /var/adm/sulog
*.info;auth,daemon,lpr,mail,news,syslog,uucp.none /var/adm/messages
*.info;auth,news,user,uucp.none /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
*.emerg *

Please advice..

Thanks in advacne

[DCE · Accepted solution]

arun,

try stoppping amd restarting the syslog daemon

[aruns_s]

Yeap.. I hv restared the daemon butno luck..

Cheers
Arun

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
what I did on my machine:
cp /dev/null /var/adm/messages

kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslog.pid`

logger TEST

That seemed to work.

For further info on /var/adm/messages:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=851170