Matthew Jarvis wrote:
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>
> Is there something special about /var/log/messages that I need to know
> to get the system to at least go back to writing to it?
>
>
The syslog daemon keeps track of that file. So just need to restart syslog:
Find the pid:
cat /var/run/syslogd.pid
Confirm:
ps ax|grep <pid>
Nuke it:
kill -HUP <pid>
Daemon starts automagically....
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