Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:41:31 +0800 From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> To: Gilles <gilles.ganault@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/log/messages empty since June 26 :-/ Message-ID: <4C2DEC8B.2020100@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <84ir26h1punkutik1dmlbhd77d2npsqupe@4ax.com> References: <84ir26h1punkutik1dmlbhd77d2npsqupe@4ax.com>
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Gilles wrote: > 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. > Based on the dates of the messages logs looks like not much is being logged for a whole year at a time. So what you are seeing is normal.
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