On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 06:52:30PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I did a ls -l on syslog* > > > > april:~# ls -l /var/log/syslog* > > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 734459 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog > > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 1197017 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog.0 > > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 79876 May 13 2013 /var/log/syslog.1.gz > > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 127547 May 12 2013 /var/log/syslog.2.gz > > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 51821 May 10 2013 /var/log/syslog.3.gz > > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 44679 May 9 2013 /var/log/syslog.4.gz > > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 46240 May 8 2013 /var/log/syslog.5.gz > > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 41297 May 7 2013 /var/log/syslog.6.gz > > april:~# > > > > It looks like nothing has been written to syslog for the last eight > > years! > > This may seem a stupid question ... > But you have checked the contents of the files haven't you ? I.e. checked > that they were that old, and don't just have the wrong timestamp due to "some > unknown problem" ?
Yes. Each syslog entry is a line of text starting with a date and time in May and is consistent with the file date. The date does not mention a year, but I presume it refers to a date in 2013. In any case, if they were current they would refer to July instead. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
