On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:33:20PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > necrotic:~# ls -l /var/log/auth.log* /var/log/mail.info*
> > -rw-r----- 1 root adm  103691 Apr 15 22:47 /var/log/auth.log
> > -rw-r----- 1 root adm       0 Dec 31  1969 /var/log/auth.log.0
> 
> > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 2668983 Apr 15 22:49 /var/log/mail.info
> > -rw-r----- 1 root adm       0 Dec 31  1969 /var/log/mail.info.0
> 
> > I'm not sure what's going on with those .0 files.
> 
> I have to admit that I don't have an idea either.  The files look
> strange at least.  The file date is a big confusing.  It's before
> the epoch as well.

Well, it's probably exactly at the epoch, actually -- it's just that my
timezone is offset from UTC in the negative direction.

> I assume that you haven't played with chattr on these files?

Nope.

FWIW, since Progeny closed up shup, I had to take that machine off-line.

But when I resurrect it, I'll see if this problem persists.

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