August 31, 20232 yr (was going to post this as a question, but since it's now resolved, i'm posting as a documentation of my journey.) This has been an on going problem for a long time for me, but i'm just now able to deal with it. /var/log/syslog no longer populates. as such http://server/logging.htm never populates. if I delete the /var/log/syslog file, I get... /usr/bin/tail: cannot open '/var/log/syslog' for reading: No such file or directory /usr/bin/tail: no files remaining and it never recreates the files. tmpfs 128M 18M 111M 14% /var/log so I have plenty of space. /etc/rc.d/rc.rsyslogd restart does no good. restarting the machine does no good. finally tried this... deleting the file AND rebooting appears to have solved it for me. deleting the file AND ONLY restarting the service does not work. not sure what background process(es) are also affected, but I figured I'd post this as how it worked for me.
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