I've accidentally deleted the files in /var/log

[quats]

I have accidentally deleted the files in /var/logs folder and now I'm not receiving any mail. I have tried to reinstall cpanel by using the update cpanel feature and selected the force reinstall option.

It recreated some of the files but not all is there a way to get the files in /var/log recreated.

 

[Infopro]

You can recreate any log file you killed via SSH by:

touch newfile.log

Of course replacing newfile with the log file name you need.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=touch+command+linux

You can also create files using CSE.

http://www.configserver.com/cp/cse.html

 

[quats]

I don't know the names of the files i need to recreate

 

[rpmws]

I don't know the names of the files i need to recreate

you may be able to get them to create themselves by restarting syslogd, pop ssh exim cron ... try restarting exim /scripts/restartsrv_exim and see if the exim_mainlog comes back. do this for all the services ...or you could try and reboot and you may find most come back.

I just tested my theory and found that:
/scripts/restartsrv_exim recreates exim logs

actually thsi may get much of that stuff back for you.
/scripts/restartsrv_syslogd

 

[quats]

Thanks for that,

Mail working again now, most of the files were recreated when I done the update but it appears to exim log files were not created, I ran the second command you gave and this solved it.

Thanks again