Could it be logrotate? Your logrotate config is only set to keep a
certain number of backup logs...once a week (typically), as it
rotates your latest logs, it deletes the oldest logs of each rotating
set.
On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:10:31 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
>
> This has me baffled...for a while now.
>
> A while back I noticed that every monday, between 9:30 and 9:45,
>some 113Mb seem to disappear from /var/log. However, I can't seem to
>figure out WHAT...
>
> Here's what I'm doing. /var/log is a partition all by itself. And
>I'm actively monitoring space on it. Everything runs fine, until it
>hits that crucial hour on monday, then the used space suddenly drops
>some 113Mb. However, I can't seem to find what it is that's being
>deleted. I've gone as far as mirroring that entire partition at 9:00,
>9:15, 9:30, 9:45 and 10:00. Between what I have on the mirror, and
>what's on the drive, both before, as well as after the apparent drop,
>there is no difference. There are no files physically being deleted,
>nor emptied, nor truncated, nothing.
>
> All of my files still have the same size as the mirror (within
>tolerance at least, those files always change, but not 113Mb), and the
>mirror itself has not been touched either (it's on a completely
>different machine). I also checked every conceivable cron and at task,
>I have nothing that runs during that time period that nukes data (nor
>anything that runs any other time that may be responsible for this)
>
> What am I missing?
>
> AMK4
>
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