Re: Empty syslog
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:39:54 +0100
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
It's probably an effect of this bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=388260
--
Liam
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