Logwatch stopped working after I did something stupid

[C de-Avillez]

On Aug 22, 2014 12:20 PM, "Knute Johnson" <ubuntu at knutejohnson.com> wrote:
>
> So I was trying to clean up my /var/log directory and remove some of the
older .gz files and I mistyped the rm command and erased all the files.
Now logwatch doesn't send me an email any more, I'm assuming because there
are no log files any more.  I thought they would just regenerate themselves
but the base file must have to be there before the services write to the
logs.  Is there a script or some simple way to recreate the base files?
>

Probably because the inodes are still allocated. Try to restart rsyslog (or
whatever it is your syslog utility).

Log files are created on demand.

..C..
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