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09-25-2014

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Syslog Messages from Remote Server are not writing to Log File Anymore

Hello All,

Server: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.3 (x86_64)

Syslog-ng Version: syslog-ng 2.0.9

We have configured a Cisco router to send it's log messages to this server listed above. This has been working just perfectly
for the last couple months, but we had never setup the log rotation part of it and the log file was getting extremely large.
So I decided to manually move the current log file to a new file and then ran touch on the original log filename to re-create it.

Code:

/var/log# mv remote.syslog.log remote.syslog.log_20140925
/var/log# touch remote.syslog.log
/var/log# chmod 640 remote.syslog.log
/var/log# bzip2 -z remote.syslog.log_20140925

I did this so I could compress the original log file with bzip2 seeing how large it was getting... Now, the log messages
from the router are not being written to the log file anymore. I ran Wireshark and I could see the router sending the messages,
to the server, yet nothing is being written to the log file anymore...

Did I mess this up somehow by moving and re-creating the original log file?

If anyone knows how I can fix this please feel free... But any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in Advance,
Matt

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MODEMMANAGER(8) 					      System Manager's Manual						   MODEMMANAGER(8)

NAME

       ModemManager - modem management daemon

SYNOPSIS

       ModemManager [--version] | [--help]

       ModemManager [--debug] [--log-level=<level>] [--log-file=<filename>] [--timestamps] [--relative-timestamps]

DESCRIPTION

       The  ModemManager  daemon  provides a unified high level API for communicating with (mobile broadband) modems. While the basic commands are
       standardized, the more advanced operations (like signal quality monitoring while connected) varies a lot.

       ModemManager is a system daemon and is not meant to be used directly from the
	      command line.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --version
	      Print the ModemManager software version and exit.

       --help Print ModemManager's available options and exit.

       --debug
	      Runs ModemManager with "DEBUG" log level and without daemonizing. This is useful for debugging, as it directs log output to the con-
	      trolling terminal in addition to syslog.

       --log-level=<level>
	      Sets  how much information ModemManager sends to the log destination (usually syslog's "daemon" facility). By default, only informa-
	      tional, warning, and error messages are logged. Given level must be one of "ERR", "WARN", "INFO" or "DEBUG".

       --log-file=<filename>
	      Specify location of the file where ModemManager will dump its log messages, instead of syslog.

       --timestamps
	      Include absolute timestamps in the log output.

       --relative-timestamps
	      Include timestamps, relative to the start time of the daemon, in the log output.

       SEE ALSO
	      NetworkManager(8).

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