vSphere 5 How to restart syslog process

[phsteele]

I was changing the location of the syslog directory on one of my vSphere 5 servers and got a strange error. Now the vmsyslogd process isn't running. I tried the command 'esxcli system syslog reload', but it just gives the error 'Failed to signal reload to vmsyslogd'. I also tried service.sh restart, but it didn't help either. There must be some way to restart the syslogger without rebooting the whole server!

Any suggestions? Thanks!

[Troy_Clavell]

see if the below article is helpful

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2003127

[VTsukanov · Accepted solution]

try start syslog by "/usr/lib/vmware/vmsyslog/bin/vmsyslogd" & "esxcli system syslog reload"

[phsteele]

Thanks! That did the trick. I figured it was just a matter of finding where the vmsyslogd file was located. I'll know where to look next time!