On Sun, 2013-05-05 at 17:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 05/05/2013 04:45 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> When I tried to troubleshoot that problem, I discovered
> that /var/log/messages* and some other files were empty. It turns out
> that syslogd was dead. I've found that it simply doesn't start on boot,
> but it starts fine when I start it by hand. dmesg and boot.log appear
> normal AFAICT, though there is nothing in them related to syslog.
Try this as root:
systemctl enable syslog.service
I'm guessing that it either got disabled, or wasn't enabled in the first
place. In fact, I'm not sure, but I think it's not enabled by default,
but my memory could easily be wrong.
Yes, I got that part, thanks. No clue why it was disabled.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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