Re: empty log files
> Any other ideas? I'm starting to wonder if this is a bug in the kernel,
> or w/ the 2.4.3 w/ debian syslog interaction. Mar. 18 and 20th were the
> last days something was logged; this coincides w/ when I switched to
> 2.4.3-pre4 or 2.4.3-pre5 (according to timestamps on ftp.kernel.org).
> Anyone else notice kernel syslogging _stop_ completely when they switched
> from 2.4.2 to 2.4.3 (or one of the 2.4.3-preX's)?
root:~# uname -a
Linux yojimbo 2.4.3-helio #1 Fri Mar 30 14:54:06 BRT 2001 i686 unknown
root:~# grep kern /etc/syslog.conf
kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
root:~# iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j LOG
root:~# ping -c 1 localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.5 ms
--- localhost ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1.5/1.5/1.5 ms
root:~# tail -1 /var/log/kern.log
Apr 6 12:40:51 yojimbo kernel: IN=lo OUT=
MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:08:00 SRC=127.0.0.1 DST=127.0.0.1
LEN=84 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=0 DF PROTO=ICMP TYPE=0 CODE=0 ID=39939
SEQ=0
I'm not sure about kernel's bug. Maybe some broke in testing/unstable? I'm
using stable release.
This is my packages' version:
root:~# dpkg -l iptables sysklogd kernel-image-2.4.3-helio
[...]
ii iptables 1.2-0.potato4 IP packet filter administration for 2.4.X ke
ii sysklogd 1.3-33.1 Kernel and system logging daemons
ii kernel-image-2 YOJIMBO.1.0 Linux kernel binary image for version 2.4.3-
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