Help! I killed logging...

[unitethenations]

A while ago I opened the console.app. I was trying to empty out some logs. It now turns out that in the process I turned off logging. I normally use geektool to monitor the computer logs console.log and system.log but they are now both empty. Can anyone tell me how to turn them back on?

 

[unitethenations]

I've found out that I deleted the file that tells syslod to run. I' think it's com.apple.syslogd. Since it wasn't backed up by time machine I'm stuck. Any advice?

 

[chrismacguy]

you probably need to reinstall leopard to get that back, or, install it to a new partition / go to a machine with it already on, and try copying it from there to yours (i dont know if it depends on the model, as a logger, it may do, so try to get one off a similar machine)

hope you get it working as logging is a v.useful tool

 

[unitethenations]

Yup, I have to archive and reinstall. I won't go poking around in system files again.