Re: Empty syslog



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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