error: stat of /var/log/cron failed: No such file or directory

Hi guys… Today I faced a issue with a new VPS installed with EZ template Centos 5.2. I was preparing the VPS with logwatch, apf and other security and got cron error under roots mail.

Cron errors shows log errors :

/etc/cron.daily/logrotate:

error: stat of /var/log/boot.log failed: No such file or directory
error: stat of /var/log/cron failed: No such file or directory

OR

You do not find log files updating

This was due to the syslog daemon not running. Check if the service is running and restart. Your server may have syslogd daemon on rsyslogd depending on your OS.

I had rsyslogd on Centos 5.2

# /etc/init.d/rsyslog status
rsyslogd is stopped
rklogd is stopped

# /etc/init.d/rsyslog start
Starting system logger: [ OK ]
Starting kernel logger: [ OK ]

Check if the service is being started at the starup :

# chkconfig –list | grep rsyslog
rsyslog 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off

Use Command to enable the daemon at startup

# chkconfig rsyslog on

The log files were not being created due to the daemons stopped, after restart all started generating.

Cheers!

🙂