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

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 go