Syslog.log not changing

[Indira Aramandla]

Hello

I've been having alot of messages going to my syslog.log on my development server, and I've tried archiving it to another volume to save space on /var. However the syslog.log has not had any new entries put into since late last month and I need to ensure that all message are going to this log. Is there an easy way to restart whatever process/daemon that populates this log ?
Thanks in Advance
Adonia

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

To stop (if running) and restart the syslog daemon do, while logged in as root:

/sbin/init.d/syslogd stop

/sbin/init.d/syslogd start

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Adonia,

If you are sure /etc/syslogd.conf is correct syntax wise, you can restart the syslogd

kill -1 "pid of syslogd"

This will make syslogd to reread the configuration and log the messages into the location specified in the configuration file.

-Sri

[Indira Aramandla]

Owner of this thread Adonia has left as her contract ended as of August 2002.

Closing this thread.

Indira A