thanj you Larry! On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Dazed_75 <lthiels...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Its not a matter of time but of file size. Apparently gzip has (or had) > some limitation it needed to honer before the file got to the limit. > > BTW, I found the easoest way to grep for something in one of the > compressed archives was to use something like > zcat /var/log/syslog.2.gz | grep cron | less > > Larry > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Stephen <cryptwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> But you seem to have done that part allready. You can check timestamps to >> get a real sense of time logged. >> On May 8, 2012 10:44 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> So I get it.... it saves a total of 8 logs 6 of which are compressed and >>> so how long is each log a record of? From my inspection of the log it seems >>> as if it covers a little more than a day. Teach mw about this! I'm all ears! >>> >>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> you guys are so helpful. Well, there is a /var/log/syslog and syslog.1 >>>> but after that it is syslog.2-7.gz, not 'z'. Does that sound right? Which >>>> is the most recent? >>>> >>>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Carruth, Rusty < >>>> rusty.carr...@smartstoragesys.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> You should see syslog.0, syslog.1, etc. (possibly with .z on the >>>>> end). Those are your older logs.**** >>>>> >>>>> ** ** >>>>> >>>>> rusty**** >>>>> >>>>> ** ** >>>>> >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to > multiple recipients, always use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy) and not To: or > CC:. Remove all addresses from the message body before sending a Forwarded > message. This can prevent spy programs capturing addresses from the > recipient list and message body. > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-:
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