well, by syslog isn't exactly missing, but ... Today my server was mysteriously unresponsive; that is, ssh to its IP address did not work.
So I went over to it, and found the screen blanl. I tried directly into its keyboard (and yes, at this point I had checked that that power was on and the relevant cables were connected. No luck. I finally rebooted it. (A convenience that's easy to do when it's physically in your living room). It rebooted cleanly, recovered its file systems (quite easy 'cause the ones I use are EXT4, although there is a Reiser filesystem lurking somewhere too), and requested a login on its console screen. And after that, ssh'ing into it worked again. Now this has happened before, about a month ago. I decided to investigate and started by looking into /var/log/syslog. Which was full of entried from May, none from this month. And yes, it knows the date is Tue Jul 27 12:19:45 EDT 2021. I did a ls -l on syslog* april:~# ls -l /var/log/syslog* -rw-r----- 1 root adm 734459 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog -rw-r----- 1 root adm 1197017 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog.0 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 79876 May 13 2013 /var/log/syslog.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 127547 May 12 2013 /var/log/syslog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 51821 May 10 2013 /var/log/syslog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 44679 May 9 2013 /var/log/syslog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 46240 May 8 2013 /var/log/syslog.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 41297 May 7 2013 /var/log/syslog.6.gz april:~# It looks like nothing has been written to syslog for the last eight years! And in all that time I hadn't noticed. It is still running ascii, by the way. I'm pretty sure ascii wasn't around yet in 2013, back when I was still running Debian. So why no system log? And, while I'm asking anyway, why no /var/log/mail* since 2013 either? What has changed? What might have changed? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
