Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-08 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 08:57:44AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Somehow my system has the old init.d/sysklogd script and the new > cron.daily script. > > I just did 'apt-get --reinstall install sysklogd' and the init.d script > did *not* get updated. Is that behavior correct? Do I need to uninsta

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-08 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Well, this is interesting. I was just going to post about this. I noticed that my /var/log/messages was getting longer and longer, and still had the entries from March 17 when I did this install. I installed anacron, thinking that not having a 24-our installation might be the problem, though it has

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-08 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 02:06:29AM -0500, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:19:52AM -0500, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > > > I just flipped a potato installation to woody on Saturday, April 6. > > My cron.daily/sysklogd script has the same line with the > > 'reload-or-restart' arg

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-08 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:19:52AM -0500, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > I just flipped a potato installation to woody on Saturday, April 6. My > cron.daily/sysklogd script has the same line with the 'reload-or-restart' > argument, which should be bogus according to Debian Policy, section 10.3.2, > w

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-08 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 12:04:27AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Thanks. With your help I have found what the problem *is*. Now I'd like > to know *why* and *how* the problem came to be. Don't thank me too fast. See below. > The cron.daily/sysklogd script passes the argument 'reload-or-restart' >

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-07 Thread Rick Pasotto
Thanks. With your help I have found what the problem *is*. Now I'd like to know *why* and *how* the problem came to be. The cron.daily/sysklogd script passes the argument 'reload-or-restart' to /etc/init.d/sysklogd *however* that is not one of the options in the case statement. There are only a 'r

Re: system logs not getting rotated

2002-04-07 Thread Mark S. Reglewski
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:50:19AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > ii logrotate 3.5.9-7Log rotation utility > > For several weeks now my system logs have not been getting rotated. All > logging is going to the .0 files. syslog, daemon.log, auth.log, etc. > remain at zero length and sysl