Hi. On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:04:36 +0200 (IST) Itay <deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, Sven Hartge wrote: > Thank you for your reply. > > My system was continuously on except for very short random periods and > 3 weeks on Aug 2013. In contrast, the listing below shows (I believe) > that syslog stopped rotating at 2010. > > # ls -gh /var/log/syslog* > -rw-r----- 1 adm 219M Nov 2 21:50 syslog > -rw-r----- 1 adm 2.5K Jun 5 2010 syslog.1 > -rw-r----- 1 adm 0 Nov 1 07:50 syslog.1.gz > -rw-r----- 1 adm 661 Jun 5 2010 syslog.2.gz > > However: > I checked /etc/cron.daily and did not find entry for rsyslog. > Maybe that's the cause? On a stock Debian system logrotate is used to rotate rsyslog logfiles. This is configured in /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog. Logrotate is invoked at /etc/cron.daily/logrotate. Now, that listing shows that someone (possibly logrotate) DID create an empty syslog.1.gz file (on 1st Nov 2013), and that suggests that logrotate is misconfigured somehow. Can you please post a contents of /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog? Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131103132051.55ecd84a7125af3e59633...@gmail.com
