Re: Empty syslog

[Mario Frasca <mario.frasca@tiscali.it>]

Hi Benjami,

found your message looking for 'syslog' on this group.  your questions are
quite in line with what I'm seeing on my system.

mario@kruiskruid:~$ uptime
 09:57:29 up 9 days, 22:57,  6 users,  load average: 3.47, 3.81, 3.14

mario@kruiskruid:~$ ls -l /var/log/syslog*
-rw-r----- 1 root adm      0 Sep 27 09:11 /var/log/syslog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 641461 Sep 30 09:55 /var/log/syslog.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 105707 Sep 27 09:10 /var/log/syslog.1.gz

mario@kruiskruid:~$ tail -1 /var/log/syslog.0
Sep 30 09:59:30 kruiskruid ntpd[1677]: synchronized to 83.67.145.167, stratum 3

notice the date of syslog.0, as compared to syslog...
it looks as if syslogd was writing into syslog.0, leaving alone syslog.

sounds strange...

regards,
Mario