Re: [expert] log file : /var/log/messages

[Hrothgar]

your messages log file gets rotated by cron (the default is weekly).  
look in /etc/cron.weekly/logrotate.  the life cycle of a log file goes
like this:

  messages -> messages.1 -> messages.2 -> messages.3 -> (deleted)

hope this helps.  cheers

cameron

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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Frederic PLE wrote:

:Hi again.
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:I would like to know why sometimes I have new files in /var/log called
:messages.1 messages.2 etc ?
:Should I understand that regularly the system makes a backup called
:messages.x and reset the messages file ?
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