no log generation

Bruce Hudson Bruce.Hudson at Dal.Ca
Tue Oct 31 19:03:34 UTC 2006


> In the syslog file I added the following line:
> local7.*                                        /var/log/dhcpd.log
> 
> Syslog was properly restarted after that, but no data at all is beeing
> entered on the above file. I tried creating the file with touch, but
> without results.

    Order is important. The file has to exist (via touch or what-ever)
and be writable when syslog initializes. If you created the file after
restarting syslog, you will need to HUP syslog again.
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