[SOLVED] Why syslog is not rotating?
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Reco wrote:
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The good news are - both cron and logrotate are working as intended on
your system. At least, they try their best.
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And the bad news are - your drive is failing. And you've already lost
some data (best scenario - some contents of /var/log/syslog).
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Shawn already suggested you to replace your harddrive ASAP, I second
this suggestion. In fact, buy two harddrives and do a RAID1 then forget
about the thing for a next few years.
I will follow your advice immediately.
(Sorry Shawn, I somehow missed your advice.)
Considering that fsck showed you no errors that means
that /var filesystem metadata is consistent. That's good as it means
you can just copy all files to the new harddrive and filesystem state
won't prevent you to do so. That, sadly, speaks nothing about an
integrity of data itself.
Thanks a lot for the help, Reco.
Also to Shawn and Sven for responding.
I'll mark this thread as solved.
Itay
Reco
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