Re: weird log file rotation?

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:41:18AM +1100, Brian May wrote:

> 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?

There have been some strange things happening with logrotate lately.  On my
system, nothing is rotated to .0 anymore, it goes straight to .1.  So I had
.0 logfiles from months ago, and .1 was the most recently rotated version.
I recently removed the .0 files because they were confusing, e.g., logcheck.

I have no idea how this happened.

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 - mdz