[leafnode-list] Re: strange problem

[Theodore Heise]

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Nick C wrote:
> On 24.04.2007 09:10, Matthias Andree wrote:
>
>> Can you add -vvvv to your crontab line, add debugmode=1 to your 
>> configuration file and see what the last few lines of your log 
>> are?

> I have a small problem now with the logging inside /var/log/news. 
> After your suggestion here, I went to /var/log/news and renamed my 
> old news.info in new news.info.XX.XX.XXXX (today's date) and 
> created a new empty file news.info. But now, fetchnews or syslog 
> does not want to log anything inside new news.info file. 
> Permissions:
>
> chaky at ubuntu:~$ ls -l /var/log/news/news.info
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root news 0 2007-04-24 17:31 /var/log/news/news.info
>
> Inside /etc/syslog.conf I have defined from the first time, that logging
> goes to news.info and that was working until today, just after renaming.

Did you send syslogd a SIGHUP or restart it?  I think this is 
necessary after changing the log file.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>     Bloomington, IN, USA