Thank you very much for your sarcastic comment, however, you must have read that far then stopped. The problem is not with the number of extra log files, the problem is that I cannot delete them. AT ALL. As far as 'my home-grown non-working method' of managing my log files, it doesn't exist. In that I had not modified any of the initial settings of /etc/newsyslog.conf or any other conf files. the only commands I ran on the system were the long string of chmod commands I listed.
That seems strange, because the file name format doesn't look anything like what newsyslog normally does. This is what log files look like on my 5.3-RELEASE-p5 system:
$ ls -lrt /var/log [snip...] -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 728 Mar 5 03:06 sendmail.st.0 -rw------- 1 root wheel 5959 Mar 5 17:00 cron.1.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 778 Mar 6 00:00 maillog.3.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 30735 Mar 6 00:00 daemon.3.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 34760 Mar 6 00:00 all.log.3.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 49601 Mar 7 00:00 all.log.2.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 645 Mar 7 00:00 maillog.2.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 46138 Mar 7 00:00 daemon.2.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16217 Mar 7 19:45 console.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 72179 Mar 7 19:45 messages -rw------- 1 root wheel 13227 Mar 7 19:45 auth.log -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 642 Mar 8 00:00 maillog.1.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 31980 Mar 8 00:00 daemon.1.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 35479 Mar 8 00:00 all.log.1.bz2 -rw------- 1 root wheel 5453 Mar 8 10:00 cron.0.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 36777 Mar 9 00:00 daemon.0.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 41041 Mar 9 00:00 all.log.0.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 644 Mar 9 00:00 maillog.0.bz2 -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 728 Mar 9 03:06 sendmail.st -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 2124 Mar 9 03:06 maillog -rw------- 1 root wheel 34519 Mar 9 08:05 cron -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 167201 Mar 9 08:06 all.log
*something's* messing with your log files. That they're all the same size is pretty odd too. Look around in /var/log/messages or /var/log/cron and see if anything looks related.
-- David Fleck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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