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I am using Debian/Sid (sidux actually) on a i686 machine. Over the
past few months, I have seen various logs being logged to the wrong
files, ie, they are being logged to the xyzlog.1 file instead of the
xyzlog files. For example, consider the datestamps & sizes of the
following files (obtained using [1], output edited):
Modification Change Size Filename
2009-10-30 14:59:14 2009-10-30 14:59:14 0 auth.log
2009-10-30 16:43:18 2009-10-30 16:43:18 4901 auth.log.1
2009-10-30 14:59:14 2009-10-30 14:59:14 0 daemon.log
2009-10-30 16:42:28 2009-10-30 16:42:28 4402 daemon.log.1
2009-10-30 15:30:15 2009-10-30 15:30:15 792823 dpkg.log
2009-09-26 01:57:27 2009-10-01 22:10:39 402483 dpkg.log.1
2009-10-30 16:42:50 2009-10-30 16:42:50 2850 kdm.log
2009-10-30 14:59:13 2009-10-30 14:59:13 15126 kdm.log.1
2009-10-30 14:59:14 2009-10-30 14:59:14 0 kern.log
2009-10-30 16:43:06 2009-10-30 16:43:06 66030 kern.log.1
2009-10-30 14:59:14 2009-10-30 14:59:14 0 mail.log
2009-10-30 14:54:23 2009-10-30 14:59:14 158 mail.log.1
2009-10-30 14:59:14 2009-10-30 14:59:14 0 syslog
2009-10-30 16:43:06 2009-10-30 16:43:06 74072 syslog.1
2009-10-30 14:59:14 2009-10-30 14:59:14 0 user.log
2009-10-30 14:54:21 2009-10-30 14:59:14 166 user.log.1
2009-10-30 16:42:28 2009-10-30 16:42:28 15430 Xorg.log
2009-10-19 00:59:08 2009-10-19 00:59:08 16295 Xorg.1.log
As you can see from the size and timestamps:
1. logs for auth, daemon, kern, syslog are sent to the wrong file (*.1)
2. logs for dpkg, kdm, mail, user seems to be OK.
Does anyone know what may be causing such a behavior? I can provide
further information, as needed.
[1] Obtained using:
$ for i in $(ls -1 *log{,.1}); do stat --printf="%y %z %s\t%n\n" $i;
done | sed 's/\.00*//g;s/[-+][0-9]\{4\}//g'
[2] Digging around the mailing lists, I found the following related
(may not be relevant) threads:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2001/04/msg00041.html
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/96509133/m/755007637731
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/msg03321.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/02/msg01647.html
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