Howdy,
I'm running FreeBSD 4.10 my /var/log/wtmp file gets reset to 0 Kb
(as well as the wtmp.X.gz files) at the end/beginning of each month. I
noticed this last month when the monthly run output notice sent to roots
mail stated =
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On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Richard Lynch wrote:
man logrotate
Probably the logs are getting rotated and old ones discarded.
Or, possibly, you haven't realized that the old logs are in /var/log/*.#
where * matches the old log name, and # is 1 to N, for some N defined in
logrotate configuration.
At 6:52 PM -0400 10/1/04, questions wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Richard Lynch wrote:
man logrotate
Probably the logs are getting rotated and old ones discarded.
man logrotate does nothing
On FreeBSD, the utility is called newsyslog.
The entry would be in /etc/newsyslog.conf .
You should have
