Rsyslog stops logging to /var/log/messages after manual editing with vim
Issue
- After use
vim
to manually edit the log file managed byrsyslog.service
, like/var/log/messages
,rsyslog.service
stops logging to this log file.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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