Re: Empty syslog

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On Saturday 30 September 2006 09:01, Mario Frasca wrote:
> 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.
>

I have this too - seems like a recent update to the system.

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Alan Chandler
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