I run logwatcher which is what led me to uncover this problem.
For the past couple days, my logwatcher e-mail has gotten smaller, and smaller. When I went to check out syslog, I was presented with this present surprise.
I upgraded to 12.10 on Saturday/Sunday.
So I attempted to look at dmesg, well, dmesg reports things correctly. So I looked at daemon.log, mail.*, messages, ufw.log, and user.log. All are empty, and have been for the past couple days, or haven't ran a new file since the 12th of November.
So I listed off the packages that had syslog in the name:
I thought, okay, well, I will double check inetutils-syslogd and try to reinstall it and rsyslog:
So, then I thought I would just install syslogd:
I really need some help in making sure everything is working correctly after this latest update. It seems to have broken quite a few different things, and I am not sure what else might be broken/missing because of it. At the moment, I don't know if syslog is really running correctly. Or if any of the other things I log (DHCP, DNS, Apache, etc) are working either, as that was the main reason I use logwatcher was to e-mail me results from those.
For the past couple days, my logwatcher e-mail has gotten smaller, and smaller. When I went to check out syslog, I was presented with this present surprise.
Code:
andrew@server:~/Downloads$ date Fri Nov 16 13:11:37 EST 2012 andrew@server:~/Downloads$ cat /var/log/syslog andrew@server:~/Downloads$ ls -l /var/log/syslog* -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 Nov 16 07:37 /var/log/syslog -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 20 Nov 15 07:36 /var/log/syslog.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 20 Nov 14 07:43 /var/log/syslog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 20 Nov 13 07:39 /var/log/syslog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 20 Nov 12 07:40 /var/log/syslog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 84817 Nov 12 07:39 /var/log/syslog.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 94447 Nov 11 07:53 /var/log/syslog.6.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 15198 Nov 10 07:57 /var/log/syslog.7.gz andrew@server:~/Downloads$
So I attempted to look at dmesg, well, dmesg reports things correctly. So I looked at daemon.log, mail.*, messages, ufw.log, and user.log. All are empty, and have been for the past couple days, or haven't ran a new file since the 12th of November.
So I listed off the packages that had syslog in the name:
Code:
andrew@server:~/Downloads$ dpkg -l | grep syslog rc inetutils-syslogd 2:1.8-6 amd64 system logging daemon ii rsyslog 5.8.6-1ubuntu9 amd64 reliable system and kernel logging daemon
Code:
andrew@server:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install inetutils-syslogd rsyslog Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done rsyslog is already the newest version. Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: inetutils-syslogd : Conflicts: linux-kernel-log-daemon Conflicts: system-log-daemon rsyslog : Conflicts: linux-kernel-log-daemon Conflicts: system-log-daemon E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Code:
andrew@server:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get install inetutils-syslogd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: rsyslog ubuntu-minimal The following NEW packages will be installed: inetutils-syslogd 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 58.7 kB of archives. After this operation, 1,027 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe inetutils-syslogd amd64 2:1.9-1 [58.7 kB] Fetched 58.7 kB in 0s (295 kB/s) (Reading database ... 177144 files and directories currently installed.) Removing ubuntu-minimal ... dpkg: rsyslog: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: inetutils-telnetd depends on inetutils-syslogd | system-log-daemon; however: Package inetutils-syslogd is not installed. Package system-log-daemon is not installed. Package rsyslog which provides system-log-daemon is to be removed. Package inetutils-syslogd which provides system-log-daemon is not installed. inetutils-talkd depends on inetutils-syslogd | system-log-daemon; however: Package inetutils-syslogd is not installed. Package system-log-daemon is not installed. Package rsyslog which provides system-log-daemon is to be removed. Package inetutils-syslogd which provides system-log-daemon is not installed. inetutils-ftpd depends on inetutils-syslogd | system-log-daemon; however: Package inetutils-syslogd is not installed. Package system-log-daemon is not installed. Package rsyslog which provides system-log-daemon is to be removed. Package inetutils-syslogd which provides system-log-daemon is not installed. inetu Removing rsyslog ... rsyslog stop/waiting Processing triggers for ureadahead ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Selecting previously unselected package inetutils-syslogd. (Reading database ... 177102 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking inetutils-syslogd (from .../inetutils-syslogd_2%3a1.9-1_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up inetutils-syslogd (2:1.9-1) ... * Starting system log daemon syslogd
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