How to restart rsyslog daemon on ubuntu

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how can i restart rsyslog or rsyslogd on ubuntu 10

root@terminator:/etc/init.d# service rsyslog status
rsyslog stop/waiting
root@terminator:/etc/init.d# service rsyslog stop
stop: Unknown instance:
root@terminator:/etc/init.d# service rsyslog restart
restart: Unknown instance:
root@terminator:/etc/init.d# service rsyslog start
start: Job failed to start
root@terminator:/etc/init.d# service rsyslogd start
rsyslogd: unrecognized service

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sudo service rsyslog restart

That should do it.

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On the clients modify the /etc/hosts file so the desired hostname comes before localhost.

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Definitely, this is related to SELinux, but because disabling SELinux is not the best choice I corrected the problem whit this:

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