My system logs aren't getting rotated

[Christian Pernegger]

After googling a bit I found the following antique post on debian-user 
from 2002: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/04/msg01056.html


> 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.

These are exactly the symptoms I'm getting, so it looks like a 
regression. I can't see anything wrong with the log rotating 
configuration, either, and I certainly did not change any of it.


Last working log rotate was on February 26th, box has been up for 197 
days, which would be since the 8th of November 2005.


Distro is the unofficial amd64-stable from amd64.debian.net, plus the 
security repository. When apt showed updates in the past I've applied 
them, but I can't remember if sysklogd was among those.


Yes, I know I should have noticed sooner.

C.


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Re: What is openoffice.org-bin ???

[Christian Pernegger]

> Whenenver I try to install openoffice using apt, apt tells me missing
> dependencies. Always apt wants to install a package named openoffice.org-bin.

As there is no openoffice for amd64 yet, the package that actually
contains the binaries (openoffice.org-bin) does not exist on amd64.
The only reason you see openoffice packages at all is that some are
arch independent.

> As workaround, I installed the openoffice-packages via download, and then
> using dpkg --force-install -i openoffice.org. This works for me, but
> nevertheless openoffice.org will never be updated, as all packages are now on
> hold, due to the missing dependencies.

That works? Interesting. I'd always thought oo needed a i386-chroot for now.

C.