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 'reload|force-reload' and a 'restart'. The cron.daily/sysklogd script was getting a usage message which went to the bit bucket. I have never manually edited *any* of these scripts. Any changes have been done via apt-get. Woody needs to be checked to verify that the problem doesn't still exist. On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:54:20PM -0500, Mark S. Reglewski wrote: > On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 10:50:19AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > ii logrotate 3.5.9-7 Log 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 syslog.0, daemon.log.0, auth.log.0, etc keep > > growing. If I reboot logging goes to the correct file until the first > > rotation. > > > > Is this a config problem or is there a problem with whichever program > > (logrotate?) does the rotating? Doesn't klogd need to be told to close > > the old file and open the new one? Where does that happen? > > > > I find no reference to these files in either logrotate.d or > > logrotate.conf nor in the system crontabs. Where is this setup? > > Rick, logrotate has nothing to do with the files you are interested in, as > you see from logrotate.conf. > > Look at your /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd and /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd scripts. > They use the /usr/bin/savelog utility to rotate system logs. If log > rotation is broken on your system, something must be wrong here. > > You might want to look at man savelog and man syslogd-listfiles. > > Do you use exim as MTA? Exim log rotation is handled by > /etc/cron.daily/exim, also using savelog. Are your exim logs being rotated > okay? If so, you'll have a working log rotation script for comparison. > > Cordially, > Mark S. Reglewski > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Rousseau was convinced that God, nature and man were wrong. I know that this opinion still sways many minds, but mine is not one of them. 1848 article in Journal des economistes -- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]