Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 20:58:48 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: questions <questions@davez.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/log/wtmp always reseting to 0 Message-ID: <p0611041ebd83ab2b25ce@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20041001183944.W13734@zeus.davez.org> References: <F53D82B1-52C1-11D8-B33B-000393C0ABC0@antsclimbtree.com> <20040213210413.T71247@admin1.mdc.net> <1311.66.243.145.38.1096668046.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <20041001183944.W13734@zeus.davez.org>
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At 6:52 PM -0400 10/1/04, questions wrote: >On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> man logrotate >> > > Probably the logs are getting rotated and old ones discarded. > > man logrotate does nothing On FreeBSD, the utility is called newsyslog. The entry would be in /etc/newsyslog.conf . You should have an entry in there for /var/log/wtmp, but all that will do is rotate the file. It isn't going to truncate it. >__________Snip Command Output_____ > $ cd /var/log > $ ls -al wtmp* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 308 Oct 1 18:34 wtmp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 05:48 wtmp.0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 05:42 wtmp.1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 05:36 wtmp.2 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 05:30 wtmp.3 > $ >_______End Snip__________________ Uh, it seems odd that all those files have a date of "Oct 1". newsyslog should only rotate the file once on any given day, not five times, once every six minutes. Did someone change the entry for newsyslog in /etc/crontab ? The only reference to newsyslog in /etc/crontab should look like: # Rotate log files every hour, if necessary. 0 * * * * root newsyslog -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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