almost nothing going to /var/log/messages and DNS not resolving remotely

[Madison Kelly]

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I just noticed that almost nothing is being written to my 
> /var/log/messages anymore. I noticed this when (related?) my bind server 
> stopped answering queries and I checked. Here are all the archived 
> versions:
> 
> ikebukuro:~# ls -lah /var/log/ |grep message
> -rw-r-----  1 root        adm       768 2009-10-05 22:34 messages
> -rw-r-----  1 root        adm      4.5K 2009-10-04 07:43 messages.1
> -rw-r-----  1 root        adm       272 2009-09-27 07:56 messages.2.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 root        adm       306 2009-09-20 07:43 messages.3.gz
> -rw-r-----  1 root        adm       267 2009-09-13 08:03 messages.4.gz
> 
> And the entirety of the current 'messages':
> 
> ikebukuro:~# cat /var/log/messages
> Oct  4 07:43:13 ikebukuro kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg 
> started.
> Oct  4 07:43:13 ikebukuro rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" 
> swVersion="3.18.6" x-pid="2354" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] restart
> Oct  5 08:01:28 ikebukuro kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg 
> started.
> Oct  5 08:01:28 ikebukuro rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" 
> swVersion="3.18.6" x-pid="2354" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] restart
> Oct  5 22:34:15 ikebukuro kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
> Oct  5 22:34:15 ikebukuro kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg 
> started.
> Oct  5 22:34:15 ikebukuro rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" 
> swVersion="3.18.6" x-pid="8877" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] restart
> Oct  5 22:34:36 ikebukuro dhcdbd: Started up.
> 
>   I've restarted bind, and even that isn't recorded. I also restarted 
> 'rsyslogd', no difference. Any ideas?
> 
> madi

Darnit, I've been on CentOS machines too much lately... It was writing 
to 'syslog' (it's a Debian box).

Still doesn't answer my DNS issues, but I'll start another thread.

madi
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