On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:31:35PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote: > How about we just eliminate the "logfile turned over" message > entirely? It's kind of bogus for newsyslog to be writing to the > log files directly. I don't think that message provides any useful > info.
Perhaps /var/log/messages was a bad example. syslogd does not write the restart message into /var/log/daemon, newsyslog also rotates files that do not belong to syslogd. Here is daemon log: 2017-03-14T00:11:46+01:00 t430s newsyslog[31315]: logfile turned over 2017-03-13T23:12:16.690Z t430s isakmpd[95880]: sendmsg ... 2017-03-13T23:12:43.720Z t430s last message repeated 3 times It is useful that log files are never empty and that you can see when they were rotated. bluhm
