Why am I not getting text into /var/log/messages?

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Published on 2012-10-26T04:58:04Z Indexed on 2012/10/26 5:05 UTC
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Good Morning,

Today, I went to look at a backup RHEL5 server that doesn't usually need to get looked at very often. I found that /var/log/messages existed, but had a size of zero. Similarly, messages.1, messages.2, messages.3, and messages.4 are also all empty.

/var/log/messages has its correct permissions. (755)
Reboot - No help.
rm -f /var/log/messages* and service syslog restart - No help.

What am I missing?

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