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auth.log is empty (Ubuntu)

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Problem

The /var/log/auth.log file in my Ubuntu 9.04 is empty. is running and /etc/syslog.conf content is as follows. Any help? Thanks.

Error Output

#  /etc/syslog.conf     Configuration file for syslogd.
#
#                       For more information see syslog.conf(5)
#                       man…

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Fix for: auth.log is empty (Ubuntu)

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When I had the same problem on Debian, I found I had to restart rsyslogd: (Your syslogd program may vary.) The it started writing to /var/log/auth.log again. Perhaps it had stopped logging after a disk full event, I'm not sure. See also: https://bug…

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