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youngka
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 Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:51 pm Post subject: Help with: /proc/kmsg -> "No such file or directory& |
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Hi all,
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myTerm ~ # /etc/init.d/syslog-ng start [ ok ]
* Starting syslog-ng ...
Error opening file /proc/kmsg for reading (No such file or directory)
Error initializing configuration, exiting.
* Failed to start syslog-ng [ !! ]
myTerm ~ #
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I have a VPS server running Gentoo, and after a reboot I noticed that syslog-ng wasn't running. It shows the above error when I try to start it. I have been Googling like mad to try and figure out where the heck kmsg comes from and how to get it back, but I am at a loss. Can someone please help me with instructions on how to get /proc/kmsg to show up again? I have taken out the kernel logging for now in syslog-ng.conf to get at least some logging happening, but I (obviously) would like to get kernel logging restored.
The VPS account is an "unmanaged" account, so the host isn't very helpful with this.
Cheers,
Keith. |
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widan
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| Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: Re: Help with: /proc/kmsg -> "No such file or direct |
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| youngka wrote: | | I have a VPS server running Gentoo, and after a reboot I noticed that syslog-ng wasn't running. |
Did it work properly before ?
| youngka wrote: | | figure out where the heck kmsg comes from |
It comes from the kernel (through the proc filesystem). If you read that file, you get the kernel log messages (that are written by printk inside the kernel).
| youngka wrote: | | how to get it back |
It should always be there, the kernel creates it... Check that /proc is mounted, just in case (but the boot process would have complained about it). Look at what you have in /proc, does it look normal, or is it empty ? |
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ryker
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Did you ever find a solution to this? I am having the same problem. I am using Gentoo Vserver and I just updated one of the hosts, ran dispatch-conf, and rebooted the guest. Now I'm getting the same kmsg error. I checked /proc and it is there. I also recompiled syslog-ng, and I get the same error.
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ryker
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| Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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I guess not. I switched to metalog, and everything seems ok now. I never could get syslog-ng to work again.
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xbot
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:17 am Post subject: |
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Got it solved!
I have gentoo running on a 1and1 Vserver too . (orig System SuSe 9.3)
Have copied the syslog-ng file from a SuSe 10 server.
Now syslog is working again!
Just change the following lines:
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options { long_hostnames(off); sync(0); perm(0640); stats(3600); };
source src { internal(); unix-dgram("/dev/log"); };
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dev-urandom
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 10:53 am Post subject: |
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Are you guys running selinux? I've seen similiar errors on some redhat systems when I upgraded. If you really don't have /proc/kmesg, well then thats a really funky kernel configuration that you folks have 
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ryker
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| Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks xbot, I'll give that a try when I get a chance. I've changed most of my machines over to metalog since syslog-ng died.
@dev-urandom: /proc/kmsg exists, syslog just says it doesn't.
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dev-urandom
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| Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| ryker wrote: | | @dev-urandom: /proc/kmsg exists, syslog just says it doesn't. |
Hmm, do you have selinux enabled? Also, please post the last few lines of /var/log/messages when you restart syslog-ng.
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ryker
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Sorry it took so long for me to reply. As I mentioned in my last post, I have switched all of my servers to metalog to quickly fix the problem. I just installed a new server (new to me) and I am running into the same problem after I did an emerge -uD world on a fresh install. It looks like syslog-ng is the same version as before I updated world. I'm not in too much of a rush for this server, so I can spend some time trying to figure out what's wrong.
Here is some more information about the problem.
When I try to start syslog-ng, I get the following: | Code: |
* Starting syslog-ng ...
Error opening file /proc/kmsg for reading (Operation not permitted)
Error initializing configuration, exiting.
* Failed to start syslog-ng |
/var/log/messages only shows syslog-ng going down for reboot after I upgraded. No new log entries. Here is a tail of /var/log/messages: | Code: | Jul 24 23:54:48 jackassvs1 init: Trying to re-exec init
Jul 24 23:54:48 jackassvs1 init: no more processes left in this runlevel
Jul 25 04:37:50 jackassvs1 syslog-ng[11715]: STATS: dropped 0
Jul 25 05:46:39 jackassvs1 rc-scripts: gcc-config: No gcc profile is active!
Jul 25 05:46:44 jackassvs1 rc-scripts: If you intend to use the gcc from the new profile in an already
Jul 25 05:46:44 jackassvs1 rc-scripts: running shell, please remember to do:
Jul 25 05:46:44 jackassvs1 rc-scripts: # source /etc/profile
Jul 25 11:31:27 jackassvs1 shutdown[6870]: shutting down for system reboot
Jul 25 11:31:27 jackassvs1 init: Switching to runlevel: 6
Jul 25 11:31:31 jackassvs1 syslog-ng[11715]: syslog-ng version 1.6.9 going down
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I am currently using syslog-ng 1.6.9
ls -lah /proc/kmsg shows: | Code: | -r-------- 1 root root 0 Jul 22 00:43 /proc/kmsg
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Seems strange that it has 400 permission. Shouldn't it at least have 444?
Please letm me know if you need any further info.
Thanks for your help.
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G104cch1n0
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| Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2013 2:39 pm Post subject: |
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Still experiencing this problem 
Someone found a fix ? |
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