weird log file rotation?
Might be since I installed msyslog, but it is logrotate which does the
rotation, and the logrotate configuration looks OK...
snoopy:unstable:/var/log# ls -ltd news*
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 487424 Dec 8 09:50 news.log
drwxrwxr-x 3 news news 752 Dec 8 03:08 news
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 609 Dec 2 06:45 news.log.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 749034 Dec 2 06:25 news.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 201 Nov 25 06:47 news.log.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 252 Nov 18 06:46 news.log.2.gz
snoopy:unstable:/var/log# ls -ltd auth*
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1298432 Dec 8 09:55 auth.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 2387956 Dec 6 06:38 auth.log.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 715 Dec 2 06:48 auth.log.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1790265 Dec 2 06:31 auth.log.3
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 147069 Nov 29 06:38 auth.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 717 Nov 25 06:48 auth.log.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1841329 Nov 25 06:31 auth.log.5
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 152732 Nov 22 06:43 auth.log.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 152751 Nov 15 06:43 auth.log.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 140908 Nov 8 06:43 auth.log.6.gz
snoopy:unstable:/var/log# ls -ltd mail.log*
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1724416 Dec 8 09:35 mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 899 Dec 2 06:47 mail.log.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1240223 Dec 2 06:30 mail.log.2
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 907 Nov 25 06:47 mail.log.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 331 Nov 18 06:47 mail.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 118538 Nov 11 06:47 mail.log.3.gz
etc
what is going on here? Whose fault is it? Why are there no *.1 files?
--
Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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