No logging occuring to /var/log/messages

[Tom H]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>
> I made a stupid boo-boo yesterday and filled up my root partition.
>
> Didn't take long to correct the situation but in the process, I guess the
> system paniced and deleted all of my  /var/log/messages and messages.x files.
>
> Ok, that's nice...   but having reinstated a messages file (empty) and checked
> on rsyslogd (which is running) and rebooting, I still don't get any messages
> in the file.
>
> I've used logger to create a message but it only goes to /var/log/syslog and
> not to /var/log/messages.  Googling for the problem has not yeilded any
> solutions.

Logging to "/var/log/messages" is disabled in "/etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf".