perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Roderick Mooi" <>]

Oh, I thought this was intentional as the perfsonar logs are written to 
/var/log/perfsonar anyway and not duplicating them saved disk space (esp with 
the recent excess log problems which seem to be resolved BTW) :)

>>> On 2014-02-25 at 23:30, Andrew Lake 
>>> <>
>>>  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for the note. The steps you took were correct. Another user 
> reported this earlier as well and we have an issue created for it here: 
> http://code.google.com/p/perfsonar-ps/issues/detail?id=820. We will correct 
> this in a future release.
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy
> 
> 
> On Feb 25, 2014, at 11:16 AM, 
> 
>  wrote:
> 
>> -------------------------------------------
>> CONCERN: upgrade to 3.3.2 broke /var/log/messages
>> -------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Recently upgraded from an original install of 3.3.1. Upgraded to 3.3.2.
>> 
>> After updating, there were no system messages being written to: 
> /var/log/messages
>> 
>> It seems /etc/rsyslog.conf was modified during upgrade by: 
> /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/scripts/system_environment/configure_syslog_local5_
> location
>> That script added an additional "-" in front of /var/log/messages, making 
>> it 
> --/var/log/messages
>> 
>> That caused rsyslog not to write at all to /var/log/messages.
>> 
>> Fixed this by editing /etc/rsyslog.conf, changing it back to: 
> -/var/log/messages
>> Then restarting rsyslog service.
>> 
>> -RP
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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