Re: System logs are being logged to wrong files

2009-11-02 Thread P K
Hi, NOTE: Kindly CC me when replying, I am not subscribed. I picked up the reply from the list archive. On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:15:19 +0200 Jari Fredriksson wrote: > 30.10.2009 22:56, P K kirjoitti: > > Hi, > > > > Kindly CC me when replying, I am not subscribed. Thanks. Now: > > > > I am using D

Re: System logs are being logged to wrong files

2009-10-30 Thread Jari Fredriksson
30.10.2009 22:56, P K kirjoitti: > Hi, > > Kindly CC me when replying, I am not subscribed. Thanks. Now: > > I am using Debian/Sid (sidux actually) on a i686 machine. Over the > past few months, I have seen various logs being logged to the wrong > files, ie, they are being logged to the xyzlog.

Re: system logs and localtime

2007-09-04 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Tony Heal wrote: I have a remote server at a client site that had /etc/localtime pointing to Eastern instead of Central. I have fixed this. Is there a way for this to take affect without rebooting the server? Tony Heal After you reset your time, you will have to restart

Re: system logs and localtime

2007-09-04 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 Tony Heal wrote: > I have a remote server at a client site that had /etc/localtime > pointing to Eastern instead of Central. I have fixed this. Is there > a way for this to take affect without rebooting the server? It has already taken effect. You don't need to rebo

RE: system logs and localtime

2007-09-04 Thread Tony Heal
BTW, this is causing all my logs to report in Eastern time Tony Heal _ From: Tony Heal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:17 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: system logs and localtime I have a remote server at a client site that had /etc/

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-08 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:57:44AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Somehow my system has the old init.d/sysklogd script and the new > cron.daily script. > > I just did 'apt-get --reinstall install sysklogd' and the init.d script > did *not* get updated. Is that behavior correct? Do I need to uninsta

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, this is interesting. I was just going to post about this. I noticed that my /var/log/messages was getting longer and longer, and still had the entries from March 17 when I did this install. I installed anacron, thinking that not having a 24-our installation might be the problem, though it has

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-08 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:06:29AM -0500, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:19:52AM -0500, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > > > I just flipped a potato installation to woody on Saturday, April 6. > > My cron.daily/sysklogd script has the same line with the > > 'reload-or-restart' arg

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-08 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:19:52AM -0500, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > I just flipped a potato installation to woody on Saturday, April 6. My > cron.daily/sysklogd script has the same line with the 'reload-or-restart' > argument, which should be bogus according to Debian Policy, section 10.3.2, > w

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-08 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:04:27AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Thanks. With your help I have found what the problem *is*. Now I'd like > to know *why* and *how* the problem came to be. Don't thank me too fast. See below. > The cron.daily/sysklogd script passes the argument 'reload-or-restart' >

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-07 Thread Rick Pasotto
Thanks. With your help I have found what the problem *is*. Now I'd like to know *why* and *how* the problem came to be. The cron.daily/sysklogd script passes the argument 'reload-or-restart' to /etc/init.d/sysklogd *however* that is not one of the options in the case statement. There are only a 'r

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-07 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:50:19AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > ii logrotate 3.5.9-7Log rotation utility > > For several weeks now my system logs have not been getting rotated. All > logging is going to the .0 files. syslog, daemon.log, auth.log, etc. > remain at zero length and sysl

Re: system logs

2001-07-21 Thread Sebastiaan
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, john gennard wrote: > I've decided to have a look at /var/log which over the months > has become quite large. The man page for syslog.conf and > /etc/syslog.conf I basically understand, but I can't find any > config file which relates to the savelog program, yet files.0 > and

Re: system logs

2001-07-20 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've decided to have a look at /var/log which over the months >has become quite large. The man page for syslog.conf and >/etc/syslog.conf I basically understand, but I can't find any >config file which relates to the savelog program, y

Re: system logs

2001-07-20 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 06:09:32PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > Can someone please explain how/where savelog operates from? grep -r savelog /etc/cron* Cheers, Joost

Re: system logs management

1999-12-06 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 5 Dec 99 20:33:06 GMT John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What steps do users take to keep logs down to reasonable sizes? I > have seen nothing on this aspect of management and so have been > using 'rm' and then creating a new file. Look into the logrotate package. > If it is possible,