On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 10:16, Craig White wrote:
> 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?
> ---
> disk full?  how much space is left in partition that includes /var
> 
> df -h
> 
> cat rm /var/log/messages.1 #etc...
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oops...

cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages.1
cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages.2 etc....

or

rm /var/log/messages.*

Craig