Hi, today we realized the problem, that syslog does not work after logfile rotation (Suse 6.3). The aaa_base update does not correct this. Thomas Biege from suse considered a kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid` at the end of the rotating script. This is only a workaround as messages logged in the time between rotation of the specific file and this statement are lost. So the protocol in /var/log/messages may not be complete. The update of the aaa_base package as suggested by suse has a new problem in the script /etc/cron.daily/aaa_base_rotate_logs: the logfiles get copied before the service is restarted. syslog has its files open, so an open file gets copied! The old suse 6.3 script had a mv in it, but did the commands in the wrong order (mv, gzip, then restart service) There is already a mechanism in this rotating script as suggested by Michael Dirska, just add syslog in the last column of /etc/logfiles. Important: do this for every file used by syslog. Imho this should be fixed immediately in another update. Michael -- Michael Hase Six Offene Systeme GmbH michael@six.de Sielminger Str. 63 http://www.six.de 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen phone +49 711 99091 62 Germany