> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 11:54:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Same thing happened to me at exactly the same date and
> time!!  What's up?
> 
> Drew
> 
> --- Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > I just noticed this entry at the very top of this
> > week's /var/log/message:
> > 
> >     [root@csc003 /root]# cat /var/log/messages  
> >     Oct  8 04:02:00 csc003 syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> >     Oct  8 04:02:00 csc003 syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> >     Oct  8 04:02:00 csc003 syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> >     Oct  8 04:02:00 csc003 syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> >     Oct  8 04:02:00 csc003 syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> > 
> > 
> > That seems very strange - do you think it's an
> > attempted crack? If not what would cause that?
> > 
> >     JW


short answer: this is normal (not a crack)

longer answer:
man logrotate
and look in /etc/cron.daily

You'll see that it runs at 4:02AM and after rotating the logs, they
are restarted.

Dave



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