I am having a bit of a headache with my syslog (/var/log/messages -or-
/usr/adm/messages) file which was first was unreadable, and now is not
even writing.
The kernel I am running is 2.0.21 (see .config file below)
What I mean by unreadable was that execution of 'more' gave white space
on the output of the log files and 'less' filled the screen with
video-inverted amperstands with adjacent carrots "@^@^@^@^@^@^ ...."
across the screen.
After moving /var/log/messages --> /var/log/old.messages no further
messages were written to /var/log/messages.
Files that are apparently being updated however are:
cron
wtmp
lastlog
These of course are unreadable also.
The machine that this is happening on is a 486 SX compiled as a firewall
machine and diskspace _was_ really at a premium (The disk is only a
100MB HDD) until I archived the /usr/src/linux directory. See the kernel
.config file below attached.
I of course need to read this file to debug the ppp daemon and chat
scripts.
I added the following lines to the /etc/syslog.conf file as the ppp
README.linux suggests but still no luck:
daemon.* /dev/console
daemon.* /usr/adm/ppplog
Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly welcomed at this point.
--Steve
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
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#
# Code maturity level options
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# CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is not set
#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
# CONFIG_MODVERSIONS is not set
CONFIG_KERNELD=y
#
# General setup
#
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y
CONFIG_NET=y
# CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set
# CONFIG_PCI is not set
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
# CONFIG_M386 is not set
CONFIG_M486=y
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
# CONFIG_M686 is not set
#
# Floppy, IDE, and other block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_PCMCIA is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
#
# Additional Block Devices
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD is not set
#
# Networking options
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CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_FORWARD is not set
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=m
#
# (it is safe to leave these untouched)
#
# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
CONFIG_INET_RARP=m
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
#
#
#
CONFIG_IPX=m
# CONFIG_IPX_INTERN is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_AX25 is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK is not set
#
# SCSI support
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# CONFIG_SCSI is not set
#
# Network device support
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CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_EQUALIZER=m
# CONFIG_PLIP is not set
CONFIG_PPP=y
#
# CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules.
#
CONFIG_SLIP=m
# CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED is not set
# CONFIG_SLIP_SMART is not set
# CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set
CONFIG_NET_ISA=y
# CONFIG_E2100 is not set
# CONFIG_DEPCA is not set
# CONFIG_EWRK3 is not set
# CONFIG_EEXPRESS is not set
# CONFIG_HPLAN_PLUS is not set
# CONFIG_HPLAN is not set
# CONFIG_HP100 is not set
CONFIG_NE2000=y
# CONFIG_SK_G16 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set
#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set
#
# CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set
#
# Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
# CONFIG_LOCK_MANDATORY is not set
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
# CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set
# CONFIG_FAT_FS is not set
# CONFIG_MSDOS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_VFAT_FS is not set
# CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS is not set
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is not set
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
CONFIG_NCP_FS=m
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m
CONFIG_UFS_FS=m
CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL=y
#
# Character devices
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CONFIG_SERIAL=y
# CONFIG_DIGI is not set
# CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set
# CONFIG_STALDRV is not set
# CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
# CONFIG_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_UMISC is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
CONFIG_FTAPE=m
#
# Set IObase/IRQ/DMA for ftape in ./drivers/char/ftape/Makefile
#
# CONFIG_APM is not set
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
# CONFIG_RTC is not set
#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set
#
# Kernel hacking
#
# CONFIG_PROFILE is not set