Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-06 Thread Itay
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20131104_105718, Itay wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:16:02 +0200 (IST) Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: [...] Is there anything suspicious in the root mailbox? root mail box

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-06 Thread Itay
On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:18:42AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20131104_105718, Itay wrote: root mail box has daily messages like this starting at june 2010 (yes, I know, bad me) A lot has changed since I was skilled at Debian install, but I

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 06:18:42AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20131104_105718, Itay wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:16:02 +0200 (IST) Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: [...] Is there anything suspicious in the

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-04 Thread Itay
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:16:02 +0200 (IST) Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: [...] Is there anything suspicious in the root mailbox? root mail box has daily messages like this starting at june 2010 (yes, I know, bad me)

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-04 Thread Shawn Wilson
I can't see how a default config would do this, but do you have SELinux or AppArmor enabled? What does fstab and mount show? If possible, copy the system off and write ones and then zeros to the disk (and look for speed drops). Looking at the disk might've been a good call. Itay

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-04 Thread Reco
Well, I have good news and bad news. On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:57:18 +0200 (IST) Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: [...] Is there anything suspicious in the root mailbox? root mail box has daily messages like this starting at june 2010 (yes, I know, bad me)

[SOLVED] Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-04 Thread Itay
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: [skip] The good news are - both cron and logrotate are working as intended on your system. At least, they try their best. [skip] And the bad news are - your drive is failing. And you've already lost some data (best scenario - some contents of

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-04 Thread Itay
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Shawn Wilson wrote: Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 04:46:48 -0500 For some reason your messages ended up in a differenet mailbox, therefore I saw them only now. Sorry about that. As was recommended I will replace the harddrive that holds /var. Nevertheless, respectfully, I

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-04 Thread shawn wilson
Raco already basically said what the issue is. I didn't notice it in the prior messages you posted. If you wanted to confirm, after you migrate your data, do a: dd if=/dev/zero of=old disk and then looking at something like: iostat -xtc 5 /dev/old disk And, if you don't see an error there, do dd

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20131104_105718, Itay wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:16:02 +0200 (IST) Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: [...] Is there anything suspicious in the root mailbox? root mail box has daily messages like this starting at

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Itay
On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, Sven Hartge wrote: Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 21:47:11 +0100 From: Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Why syslog is not rotating? Resent-Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 20:48:34 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Itay deb

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Shawn Wilson
Can syslog rotate logs? I just use logrotate. Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, Sven Hartge wrote: Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 21:47:11 +0100 From: Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Why syslog is not rotating? Resent-Date: Sat, 2

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:04:36 +0200 (IST) Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, Sven Hartge wrote: Thank you for your reply. My system was continuously on except for very short random periods and 3 weeks on Aug 2013. In contrast, the listing below shows (I believe)

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Itay
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:20:51 +0400 From: Reco recovery...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm Subject: Re: Why syslog is not rotating? Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:21:12 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Itay
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Shawn Wilson wrote: Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 04:07:45 -0500 From: Shawn Wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com To: Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm, Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm, debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Why syslog is not rotating? Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:08:46

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Reco
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 11:29:58 +0200 (IST) Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: --[Begin: /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog]-- /var/log/syslog { rotate 7 daily missingok notifempty delaycompress compress postrotate invoke-rc.d

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Itay
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:48:42 +0400 From: Reco recovery...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Why syslog is not rotating? Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:49:15 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org Looks that's a stock one

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Reco
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:25:38 +0200 (IST) Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: Not yet, but we have some progress... Trial 1: # /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf error: error creating output file /var/log/syslog.1.gz: File exists Trial 2: # rm

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Itay
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:30:17 +0400 From: Reco recovery...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Why syslog is not rotating? Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:30:47 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:25

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-03 Thread Reco
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 17:16:02 +0200 (IST) Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote: Now that's interesting. Is there anything similar to this messages in /var/log/cron.log? H... there is no /var/log/cron.log !! Sorry, my mistake. I have an old installation,

Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-02 Thread Itay
Hi, Can someone help me, please, to understand why syslog is not rotating? # ls -gh /var/log/syslog* -rw-r- 1 adm 219M Nov 2 21:50 syslog -rw-r- 1 adm 2.5K Jun 5 2010 syslog.1 -rw-r- 1 adm0 Nov 1 07:50 syslog.1.gz -rw-r- 1 adm 661 Jun 5 2010 syslog.2.gz -rw-r- 1

Re: Why syslog is not rotating?

2013-11-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Itay deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm wrote: Can someone help me, please, to understand why syslog is not rotating? The system ist not running at the time when cron.daily is scheduled to run? -- anacron takes care of that. Or somehow there is an error and logrotate refuses to run. In that case run