Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 23:23:23 -0400 From: Geoffrey Robinson <geoffr@globalserve.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Reading Cycled Logs Message-ID: <35381CAB.243600D8@globalserve.net>
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Hi, I admin a co-hosted server and every few weeks I login to find it has rebooted. I don't know if its a technical problem, a power failure or somebody with root privileges from my ISP doing work on it. My problem is that the last two times its happened the /var/log/messages file had been cycled before I got to it so I can't find out if it was done by a user or not. My question is how do I extract the compressed back logs and how do I determine which log file to decompress? When the messages log is cycled is it numbered 1 and all the other archived logs moved up in number so that the last one is deleted or dose it archive them in a loop. (ie. archives it as messages.1.gz, then messages.2.gz the next time until it reaches the last number and goes back to messages.1.gs ). Thanks in advance for any help. -- Geoffrey Robinson geoffr@globalserve.net Oakville, Ontario, Canada. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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