https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733868 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733868#c0 Summary: openSUSE 12.1 syslog rotation fails Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: cbenson@fhcrc.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1 Normal log rotation of /var/log/messages fails because this command no longer works in 12.1: "/etc/init.d/syslog reload" /var/log/messages shows: Nov 30 04:00:03 rhino-b logrotate: redirecting to systemctl Nov 30 04:00:03 rhino-b logrotate: Failed to issue method call: Unit syslog.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status syslog.service' for details. This can also be reproduced at the command line: /root # systemctl reload syslog.service Failed to issue method call: Unit syslog.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status syslog.service' for details. However, this does still work: /root # cd /etc/init.d /etc/init.d # ./syslog reload redirecting to systemctl Reload syslog service The log daemon is rsyslog: /root # ps -ef | grep syslog | grep -v grep root 324 1 0 Nov17 ? 00:00:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-kmsg-syslogd root 418 1 0 Nov17 ? 00:00:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-stdout-syslog-bridge root 12456 1 0 14:01 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/rsyslogd -c 5 -f /etc/rsyslog.conf I have the following conf files for rsyslog: /etc # ls -ld rsyslog* -rw------- 1 root root 4027 Nov 26 06:30 rsyslog.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 3 07:42 rsyslog.d -rw------- 1 root root 4027 Nov 15 10:07 rsyslog.early.conf Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.systemctl reload syslog.service 2.OR: /etc/init.d/syslog reload 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.