syslog not getting updated

[Animesh Chakraborty]

Hi All,
I have noticed that syslog file is not getting updated for last seven days in one of my V- class server with HP-UX 11.
What may be the reason ?.
I have not rebooted the server for last 33 days.
Thanks in advance
Animesh

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Two immediate thoughts/questions: (1) Is the 'syslogd' daemon running? [ ps -ef|grep syslogd ]; and/or (2) Did you (re)move the syslog instead of trimming it by redirecting /dev/null into it?

...JRF...

[Matt Livingston · Accepted solution]

I had a similar problem once on 10.20 when I manually renamed syslog.log to syslog.old syslogd continued to write to the same file (now named syslog.old) while the new one (syslog.log) remained empty.

I restarted syslogd to resolve it.

If syslogd is running, but not writing anything to your syslog.log, there's no harm in shutting it down and restarting it. If syslogd is not running, well that's what your problem is, and you'll need to start it.

Other things to check:
Whether or not the filesystem is full.
Check the lost+found directory of syslog.log's filesystem. If syslog.log was deleted while syslogd was running, that's where it should be until syslogd is shut down.

[Ajitkumar Rane]

You should check for the "syslogd" daemon which actually updates the syslog file as well as send errors to the console. Or else did someone change the error level for syslog.

Goodluck !

[Bruce Regittko_1]

Hi,

...And if all of the above fail, check /etc/syslog.conf. Perhaps some one has directed syslogd to use another file. If this is so, you will have to send syslogd a HUP signal to get it to reread syslog.conf after you edit it.

kill -s HUP

[Animesh Chakraborty]

A big thanks to you all for help.
Though my syslogd daemon was running,I stoped and restarted it and syslog.log started updaing now.
Thanks
Animesh