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Re: stange error



On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 10:04:06 +0100, Informatik.hu wrote:

> I am getting the following line in my /var/log/messages, but no any
> other:
> 
> Jan 23 06:25:23 algol rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd"
> swVersion="4.6.4" x-pid="1500" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com";] rsyslogd
> was HUPed, type 'lightweight'.
> 
> What does it mean?

I read it as rsyslog daemon received a "hup" signal in the mode 
"lightweight" (kinda soft-restart, maybe it was re-engaded on demand by a 
script in logrotate :-?)

Are you getting new entries in the rest of the logs ("/var/log/syslog", 
etc...). "messages" log file is not very verbose in Debian.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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