/var/log/messages empty since June 26 :-/
Fbsd8
fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com
Fri Jul 2 13:41:36 UTC 2010
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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