syslog isn't logging messages

[Brian McNally <bmcnally@gmail.com>]

I started a post on the Arstechnica Linux forum, but I haven't yet been
able to solve my problem. Here's a link to my original post that
discusses some of the things I've already tried:

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/755007637731

To summarize the problem: syslog isn't logging anything to certain
files is should be (according to /etc/syslog.conf). For example, I
don't see any output in /var/log/kern.log when I should.

Thanks.

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Brian McNally