/var/log/{messages,secure,cron,maillog} files are not updating.
Issue
- System logs are not being collected.
/var/log/{messages,secure,cron,maillog}
files are empty.- logger command is not generating logs.
- Symbolic link
/dev/log
is missing.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8,9
- rsyslog
- systemd-journald
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