Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:40:14 GMT From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/158121: The "security run output" contains log entries which are a year old. Message-ID: <201106220440.p5M4eEHG052527@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/158121; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> To: Jesper Wallin <jesper@ifconfig.se> Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/158121: The "security run output" contains log entries which are a year old. Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:32:25 +0300 On 2011-06-21, Jesper Wallin wrote: > The log entries in /var/log/auth.log does not contain the year. > Because of this, if you rarely logon to the machine (or for some other > reason doesn't manage to reach the 100K limit before newsyslog rotate > your auth.log) the "security run output" will send you a year old > logs. :-) > >Fix: > Make newsyslog rotate auth.log regardless of it's size or make somehow > make sshd/syslogd log the year as well. You can configure interval based rotation in /etc/newsyslog.conf . See the description for "when" field in newsyslog.conf(5) manual page. -- Jaakko
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