Hi there,
I logged into my ISP last night, and start downloading some files. As it
started to take longer than I thought I left it running over night. This
morning after I logged out I checked the `messages' file, and to my
surprise most of it was deleted. There was only a few lines there; to
Hi there,
I logged into my ISP last night, and start downloading some files. As it
started to take longer than I thought I left it running over night. This
morning after I logged out I checked the `messages' file, and to my
surprise most of it was deleted. There was only a few lines
You prolly have your logs rotated by a cron job which is why you have
no messages. Go look in your /var/log dir and see how many files are there.
Ususally the messsages file gets rotated and appears as messages.1-messages.#
As for the syslogd, thats because when the log rotates, the syslogd has