On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 10:07, Daniel McAferty wrote:
> Hello PLUG.
> My redhat 8 system has quit logging any system messages. All
> of the /var/log files such as maillog and messages are not
> receiving any new logging messages.
> 
> A "service syslog restart" returns:
> Shutting down kernel logger: 	[OK]
> Shutting down system logger: 	[OK]
> Starting system logger: 	[FAILED]
> Starting kernel logger: 	[OK]
> 
> Yet "ps ax | grep syslog" gives:
> 24936 ?        S      0:00 syslogd -m 0
> 
> By running the syslog command from the command line it start
> but I get a return error of 130.
> 
> What could possible be causing the FAILED response?
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disk full?  how much space is left in partition that includes /var

df -h

cat rm /var/log/messages.1 #etc...

rooted? <http://www.chkrootkit.org>

probably others reasons that I am not anticipating

Craig