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Re: Log oddness



Dave Sherohman wrote:

> Has anything strange been happening in testing/woody's logging facilities
> lately?
>
> In the last week, one of my machines has two days where the archived syslog
> is completely empty (not even a "--MARK--") and this morning I found a
> warning that auth.log was smaller than it had been the last time it was
> checked.  I'm inclined to think that someone managed to break into this
> system, but first I want to check on whether there are any alternate
> explanations which won't require me to wipe the drive and reinstall.
>

Running Sid or Woody? Log daemon changed lately, try looking for sysklogd or
klogd or both...


Andrea




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