On Friday 06 April 2001 03:47, Andres Salomon wrote: > i was playing w/ a kernel driver when i noticed the following: > > (machine 1) > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Mar 25 06:49 /var/log/kern.log > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 2259 Mar 20 17:59 /var/log/kern.log.0 > > (machine 2) > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 0 Mar 25 06:49 /var/log/kern.log > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 436938 Mar 18 18:40 /var/log/kern.log.0 > > this is rather disturbing. my /etc/syslog.conf on both machines > contains "kern.* -/var/log/kern.log", with timestamps on the conf > files being from january. has anyone else noticed something similar? > i'm thinking this is either a bug w/ syslog, or else i fucked something > up. user.log is 0 bytes as well. the other log files are fine (messages, > daemon.log, auth.log, debug, and syslog), afaict. has anyone else noticed > anything similar w/ debian unstable?
Verify if your "/etc/syslog.conf" is right: kern.* <tab> -/var/log/kern.log where "<tab>" is a real tabulation (don't write it). Run a "killall -HUP syslogd" and use a "ipchains -A input -p all -l" to test. Finally ping yourself (ping localhost). If it don't work, you're (or your syslog) in trouble. -- Hélio Alexandre Lopes Loureiro e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: + 55 11 6224-1795 Division Multiservice Networks - First Deployments Public Key => http://cipsga.procempa.com.br/oks/pt_BR/ (pgp-i 2.6.3) http://www.engnux.ufsc.br/helio/identity.pub.txt /"\ \ / Campanha da fita ASCII - Contra mail HTML X ASCII ribbon campaign - Against HTML mail / \