At 6:52 PM -0400 10/1/04, questions wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Richard Lynch wrote:
man logrotate
> Probably the logs are getting rotated and old ones discarded.
man logrotate does nothing
On FreeBSD, the utility is called newsyslog.
The entry would be in /etc/newsyslog.conf .
You should have an entry in there for /var/log/wtmp, but all that
will do is rotate the file. It isn't going to truncate it.
__________Snip Command Output_____
$ cd /var/log
$ ls -al wtmp*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 308 Oct 1 18:34 wtmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 05:48 wtmp.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 05:42 wtmp.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 05:36 wtmp.2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Oct 1 05:30 wtmp.3
$
_______End Snip__________________
Uh, it seems odd that all those files have a date of "Oct 1".
newsyslog should only rotate the file once on any given day,
not five times, once every six minutes. Did someone change the
entry for newsyslog in /etc/crontab ? The only reference to
newsyslog in /etc/crontab should look like:
# Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
0 * * * * root newsyslog
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