Re: [TCLUG:21119] RH 5.1 question

[<andy@theasis.com>]

Uhh....
"somehow" having all the logs disappear is cause for alarm.
If this thing is network-connected, then that's a big red flag for a
compromise of security. 

Andy

> Thanks to everyone who helped me out with this one.  Apparently the
> problem
> was User Error.  Here's what my friend had to say in his last e-mail:
> 
> > Some dumb-ass had
> > installed WordPerfect on the friggin 99meg root partition. We removed it.
> > Then noticed that somehow our var/ directory was *missing*. Our utmp and
> > wtmp files had been erased, and w,last, syslogd, etc. wouldn't work. We
> > fixed it by adding a couple of lines to the syslog.conf and restarting a
> > couple of times. Works now. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.