In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Thomas D. Dean" write
s:
>I notice that my /var/log/wtmp has strange renewal times. I don't
>know when it was not like this. newsyslog.conf is set to renew this
>once per week. What is causing this?
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 27 Apr 15 12:00 /var/log/wtmp.3.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 244 Apr 13 15:52 /var/log/wtmp.4.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 176 Apr 8 12:12 /var/log/wtmp.5.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 148 Apr 3 10:51 /var/log/wtmp.6.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 280 Mar 30 21:16 /var/log/wtmp.7.gz
Gzip by default preserves the last-modified time of a file when
gzipping, so these times are actually the times at which the wtmp
file was previously modified before being rotated.
Try "ls -lc", which will show up the rotation time.
Ian
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