Tally doesn't log into system.log

[Aar]

Just to be on the safe side?
I have installed the latest stable Direct Admin version. Could it be correct that the DA tally is no longer working properly, or is being logged?

I noticed that the system.log is empty:

grep -F "Tally All Complete" /var/log/directadmin/system.log

In DirectAdmin itself, I also see an empty file under Log Viewer -> /var/log/directadmin/system.log.

That can't be right, can it? It should show something like this, shouldn't it?

2026:10:25-00:10:05: Tally User admin Start
2026:10:25-00:10:10: Tally User admin Complete
2026:10:25-00:10:10: Tally All Complete
2026:10:25-00:10:50: httpd reloaded

What I know so far:

- The cron job is present and schedules the tally for 00:10.
- restart_apache_after_tally=1 is set.
- According to the journal, Apache was reloaded at 00:18:37.
- system.log is empty and therefore contains no tally registration.

I've tried this:, the files are empty

[root@server admin]# ls -lah --full-time /var/log/directadmin/system.log /var/log/directadmin/errortaskq.log

-rw-r--r-- 1 diradmin diradmin 0 2026-10-25 03:14:02.434106564 +0100 /var/log/directadmin/errortaskq.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 diradmin diradmin 0 2026-10-25 03:14:02.434106564 +0100 /var/log/directadmin/system.log

But the file is empty?
How come?

I'm a step closer.....
The tally of last night has been been rotated to /var/log/directadmin/system.log-20261025? But why?

[root@web01 admin]# grep -iE 'system\.log|error\.log|errortaskq\.log|security\.log|login\.log' /var/lib/logrotate/logrotate.status
"/var/log/directadmin/error.log" 2026-10-25-3:14:2
"/var/log/directadmin/errortaskq.log" 2026-10-25-3:14:2
"/var/log/directadmin/security.log" 2026-10-25-3:14:2
"/var/log/directadmin/login.log" 2026-10-25-3:14:2
"/var/log/directadmin/system.log" 2026-10-25-3:14:2

The behaviour looks not right? Or is the daylight saving time the cause?

 

[Aar]

The log is now being working correctly, without anything having been changed in the sourcecode:
After adding a subdomain and a mail-setting, i can be relieved.

2026:10:25-13:20:57: named reloaded
2026:10:25-13:41:58: named reloaded
2026:10:25-13:41:59: httpd reloaded
2026:10:25-13:41:59: php-fpm74 reloaded
2026:10:25-13:41:59: php-fpm84 reloaded

But it is strange that the log from last night was already rotated that night?
How is this possible? Am I seeing things, or is this behavior normal?