Killed message log!!!

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:31:31 PDT 2004


Scribbling feverishly on May 21, Harry G managed to emit:
> In my attempt to find the trouble with cdrecord, I meant to copy my 
> /var/log/messages doc.  Instead, due to the hour, I renamed it.
> 
> I successfully renamed it back, but now, there is no logging report 
> being generated in the message file.  
> 
> What can I do to fix this stupid thing I did?

Restart syslog.

Kurt
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You can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish.



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