I don't typically remember /var/log/messages being as empty (mostly MARK entries). I have the following entry in syslog.conf:
*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none -/var/log/messages ...that is the only play "messages" is defined. My syslog is pretty lenghty, and I have several entries being printed to /dev/tty9: daemon,mail.*;\ *.=notice;*.=warn /dev/tty9 ...This is probably a non issue, I just remember when my /var/log/messages was basically a data dump for everything. Anything look abnormal? --Jay Barbee