perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jeremy Palmer <>]

I just noticed that nothing is being logged in /var/log/messages (zero length 
files) on the majority of my toolkit hosts (all running version 3.3.2).

I took a look in /etc/rsyslog.conf on one of my boxes and I see the following 
config line:

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                ---/var/log/messages

I understand that a using a single dash in front of the log file location 
disables file write syncing. However, it appears that using multiple dashes 
breaks logging to the file altogether. Some of my toolkit hosts have two dashes 
in the config, some have three, and some have four dashes.

The only toolkit hosts that were actually logging to the messages file correctly 
where ones I've installed recently (within the last month or so).

To fix, I just removed all the extra dashes from this config line in 
rsyslog.conf and restarted rsyslogd.

Anyone else run into this or have any idea of how this may have happened? 
Perhaps certain yum updates may have added the additional dashes to the config?

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Jeremy Palmer
Senior Network Engineer
ViaWest, Inc.
Office: 720.891.1045
Fax: 303-874-5236
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