[mythtv-users] after reboot mythbackend not logging to /var/log/messages

[Thomas Boehm]

On 11/08/16 20:05, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 10:31:42 AM Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>> [0.27.6 on Fedora 22]
>>
>> Since I set my box up I have been doing a tail -f /var/log/messages as an easier way to see what mythbackend is logging.
>>
>> The other day I did some Fedora updates including a newer kernel but didn't reboot because it wasn't convenient. This morning the box started generating a bunch of CPU/GPU messages which eventually led me to just reboot it.
>>
>> But now there is no mythbackend logging to /var/log/messages at all and I'm stumped as to why that is. Other stuff is getting logged though.
>>
>> Any ideas?
> 
> I left things as-is and looked around to see how to reconnect the logging, and just this morning at 10am, 15 days after I rebooted, lo and behold logging is as it was before. Now I don't understand twice as much.

Do you have logrotate running? If so, then you might have "tailed" a
file which was not written to anymore. Closing tail and starting it
again then opened the new file.