Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > I did a ls -l on syslog* > > april:~# ls -l /var/log/syslog* > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 734459 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 1197017 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog.0 > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 79876 May 13 2013 /var/log/syslog.1.gz > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 127547 May 12 2013 /var/log/syslog.2.gz > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 51821 May 10 2013 /var/log/syslog.3.gz > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 44679 May 9 2013 /var/log/syslog.4.gz > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 46240 May 8 2013 /var/log/syslog.5.gz > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 41297 May 7 2013 /var/log/syslog.6.gz > april:~# > > It looks like nothing has been written to syslog for the last eight > years!
This may seem a stupid question ... But you have checked the contents of the files haven't you ? I.e. checked that they were that old, and don't just have the wrong timestamp due to "some unknown problem" ? Simon _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
