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Subject: /var/log/messages empty since June 26 :-/
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Hello

	On a FreeBSD 6.3 server sitting in a corner of the office not doing
much work,  I noticed that /var/log/messages was turned over and has
been empty since 26 June:

# tail /var/log/messages
Jun 26 16:00:00 freebsd newsyslog[5320]: logfile turned over due to
size>100K

# ll /var/log/        
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel          78 26 jui 16:00 messages
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        8396 26 jui 16:00 messages.0.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        8329 30 mar 11:00 messages.1.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        8663  2 mar  2009 messages.2.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        9640 20 déc  2008 messages.3.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        6554 17 oct  2008 messages.4.bz2
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        5825 17 oct  2008 messages.5.bz2
(jui = June, jul = July)

I don't have enough experience with FreeBSD to understand the cause
for this, and how to solve it, so would appreciate any suggestion.

Thank you.