Gentoo people, please help me - log files are gone!

Hi,

It seems that some services were broken. I've reboot and some of that files are now written. :oops:

Thank you anyway

Yeah … Most are owned by root, anyhow. From the Gentoo 2005 template image:

bash-2.05b# ls -al /var/log/
total 3
drwxr-xr-x   3 root    root    1024 Sep 14  2004 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 root    root    1024 Jun 30  2004 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Mar 30 18:14 auth.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Mar 30 18:14 daemon.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Mar 30 18:14 debug
-rw-rw----   1 portage portage    0 Mar 30 18:14 emerge.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Sep 14  2004 imapd.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Mar 30 18:14 kern.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Mar 30 18:14 lastlog
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Sep 14  2004 lpr.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Sep 14  2004 mail.err
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Sep 14  2004 mail.info
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Sep 14  2004 mail.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Sep 14  2004 mail.warn
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Mar 30 18:14 messages
drwxr-xr-x   2 root    root    1024 Sep 14  2004 news
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Sep 14  2004 ppp.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Mar 30 18:14 syslog
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Sep 14  2004 user.log
-rw-r--r--   1 root    root       0 Sep 14  2004 uucp.log
-rw-rw-r--   1 root    utmp       0 Mar 30 18:15 wtmp

-Chris

@fernandonajer:

Hi,

It seems that for example postfix cannot write to mail.* files, and so on: all of them are 0 bytes long.

Note: postfix doesn't write to files but sends its logs to syslog. You might want to restart syslog (it may have been stopped or the files moved without it being sent a SIGHUP).

Thank you! I was confused because I didn't know what gyver says. It was syslog which was down (why???)

Anyhow, thank you for your help. I've checked my list against caker's and it seems to be ok now.