Re: Missing log file

[Nick Hastings <hastings@physics.unimelb.edu.au>]

Hi,

* George Karaolides <george@karaolides.com> [020108 09:09]:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know what, if anything, besides foul play could cause one of
> the old, compressed log files to disappear?  I'm missing a whole day's
> /var/log/messages.n.gz from this past week.
>

Old logs are deleted periodically. Look at the man pages for logrotate and
cron.

Nick.

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