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Date:      Thu, 11 Feb 2016 21:46:33 -0500
From:      Janos Dohanics <web@3dresearch.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /var/log/auth.log missing
Message-ID:  <20160211214633.58ef122e10cfd0314b8d79a8@3dresearch.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAA2O=b91hdxYEJKkVAUfV3_upndtUY-OQyCYi1oaU4Nup=Cy3A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:35:07 +0200
Anton Sayetsky <vsasjason@gmail.com> wrote:

> 11 ????. 2016 ?. 20:47 ???????????? "Janos Dohanics"
> <web@3dresearch.com> ???????:
> >
> > Hello List,
> >
> > Just discovered that on one of my boxes (FreeBSD 9.3-STABLE #0
> > r286291) /var/log/auth.log is missing.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > How can I fix this problem?
> # install -o root -g wheel -m 600 /dev/null /var/log/auth.log &&
> # service
> syslogd reload

Thanks!

> > Any guess what might have caused /var/log/auth.log not be created?
> Someone deleted it.

Right...

Being the only one with shell access to this system, I'm of course
concerned; perhaps I should also be concerned about my memory ;)

--=20
Janos Dohanics



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