On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 06:03:32PM +0200, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
> Arthur Lutz wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am having a really anonying bug with bacula. The log files are empty,
> > the email notifications only have the subjet filled in, and running 
> > jobs on the console don't display anything. 
> > 
> > I don't believe having changed anything to the configuration when 
> > the logs disappeared (1st of august).
> > 
> > At first I thought it was logrotate that rotated the log and left bacula
> > writing to another file. I don't think that is the case anymore since 
> > I've restarted bacula, changed the log file, even stupidly rebooted 
> > the machine. The modification time on the log file changes but no 
> > content in it.
> > 
> > The backups still work (I get a bunch of OKs).
> > 
> > I've fiddled with setdebug and autodisplay with no success. Thanks
> > for any tips investigating this annoying bug (bacula 2.4 on a bunch
> > of debian machines).
> > 
> > Otherwise thanks for a great product.
> > 
> > Arthur
> > 
> 
> Hi Arthur, are you sure the rotate log doesn't create the new file with wrong 
> permission
> check owner and right to the /var/lib/bacula and log file.
> 
> If your config doesn't have change, it's certainly a simple question of 
> rights.
> 

In the end it was not a question of rights. It was as simple as a full
disk. A bit of clean up later the messages started flowing back... 

Maybe bacula could handle that case differently ? 

Well... happy to get my logs running again.

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