It looks like logrotate is rotating the files after it sends a HUP signal to syslog (to tell it to restart with a new file). It should rotate the files first and then send it a HUP signal to get it to start writing to the messages file.
Or, it could be something completely different. :-/ Cheers, Tanner On 1/8/06, Christopher L Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone heard of a bug or mis-configuration that causes most log files to be > written to <logname>.1 instead of <logname>? > > For instance, our /var/log/messages never has anything in it. Today it looks > like: > > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jan 8 04:04 messages > > -rw------- 1 root root 3060527 Jan 8 18:35 messages.1 > > -rw------- 1 root root 593454 Jan 1 22:50 messages.2 > The most recent messages are always in /var/log/messages.1 > > The system is CentOS 4. > > TIA, > C > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chris Merrill | http://www.webperformance.com > Web Performance Inc. > > Website Load Testing and Stress Testing Software > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
