syslogd restart during reboot

[Clinton A Neill]

I rebooted a server that is part of a ServiceGuard cluster. The messages I would expect to see at the beginning of syslog are missing. The syslog starts with a message stating syslogd: restart. No one could have entered a command to cause this since it was just booting and I was the only one on te system. Any ideas?

Good points given always!

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Clinton:

This is expected. Look at the startup script for 'syslogd" --- '/sbin/init.d/syslogd'.

You will see that '/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log' is renamed '/var/adm/syslog/OLDsyslog.log' during startup and that a new copy of 'syslog.log' is created as an empty file; followed by a start of the syslogd daamon and a write of the string "System message logger started" into the new 'syslog.log'.

Your previous log and its messages are thus available.

Regards!

...JRF...