[TriLUG] log rotation wierdness

[Tanner Lovelace]

It looks like logrotate is rotating the files after it sends a HUP signal
to syslog (to tell it to restart with a new file).  It should rotate the files
first and then send it a HUP signal to get it to start writing to the
messages file.

Or, it could be something completely different. :-/

Cheers,
Tanner

On 1/8/06, Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
> Anyone heard of a bug or mis-configuration that causes most log files to be
> written to <logname>.1 instead of <logname>?
>
> For instance, our /var/log/messages never has anything in it.  Today it looks
> like:
>  > -rw-------  1 root  root           0 Jan  8 04:04 messages
>  > -rw-------  1 root  root     3060527 Jan  8 18:35 messages.1
>  > -rw-------  1 root  root      593454 Jan  1 22:50 messages.2
> The most recent messages are always in /var/log/messages.1
>
> The system is CentOS 4.
>
> TIA,
> C
>
>
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