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.

System logs are being logged to wrong files

2009-10-30 Thread P K
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.1 file instead of the xyzlog files. For example,

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

system logs and localtime

2007-09-04 Thread Tony Heal
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

Re: etch laptop system logs me out during inactivity (X crash?)

2006-12-30 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 02:39:34PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote: > I've seen this happening on my etch laptop more often recently (not > exactly sure when I first saw it, but it has probably been within the > last 3 months). I generally keep the syste

etch laptop system logs me out during inactivity (X crash?)

2006-12-30 Thread Rick Reynolds
I've seen this happening on my etch laptop more often recently (not exactly sure when I first saw it, but it has probably been within the last 3 months). I generally keep the system relatively up-to-date (almost always within a couple weeks of current testing). I typically leave my laptop on

can't find tcpd messages in system logs

2006-11-17 Thread Brian Sammon
According to various tcpd docs (manpage, READMEs) it logs information via syslog. However, when I do 'grep -i tcpd /var/log/*' I see nothing. I have tcpd 7.6.dbs-8 and sysklogd 1.4.1-17 on my machine. I have stripped my /etc/syslogd.conf down to the following single line, (and restarted inetd)

No Oops in system logs

2002-05-22 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I have the following in /etc/syslog.conf: auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log *.*;auth,authpriv.none /var/log/syslog cron.* /var/log/cron.log daemon.*/var/log/daemon.log kern.* /var/log/kern.log l

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
he problem doesn't still exist. On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:54:20PM -0500, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > 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

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

system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-07 Thread Rick Pasotto
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 syslog.0, daemon.log.0, auth.log.0, etc keep growing. If I reboot logging

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

system logs

2001-07-20 Thread john gennard
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 .x.gz have been created in /var/log. I have little

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,

system logs management

1999-12-05 Thread John
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. If it is possible, I would like to remove everything older than say seven days on a twice monthly basis after checking there

Re: weird crontab entries in system logs

1999-06-28 Thread Thomas Keusch
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 07:49:25PM -, Pollywog wrote: > A few minutes ago, I started getting this about every five minutes. My > /etc/crontab has not been changed, so I am stumped > > > Unusual System Events > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Jun 27 19:40:32 lilypad /usr/bin/crontab[7692]: (root)

weird crontab entries in system logs

1999-06-27 Thread Pollywog
A few minutes ago, I started getting this about every five minutes. My /etc/crontab has not been changed, so I am stumped > Unusual System Events > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Jun 27 19:40:32 lilypad /usr/bin/crontab[7692]: (root) LIST (root) > Jun 27 19:40:32 lilypad crontab[7695]: (root) REPLACE (