Re: Missing log file

[George Karaolides <george@karaolides.com>]

Hi,

On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Nick Hastings wrote:

>
> 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.
>

Yes, but normally it's the oldest one that gets deleted.  I'm missing one
from the middle of the series.  How could that come about?

Best regards,

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