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Autor: Simon Hobson
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Assunto: Re: [DNG] Missing syslog
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> I did a ls -l on syslog*
>
> april:~# ls -l /var/log/syslog*
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 734459 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 1197017 May 17 2013 /var/log/syslog.0
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 79876 May 13 2013 /var/log/syslog.1.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 127547 May 12 2013 /var/log/syslog.2.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 51821 May 10 2013 /var/log/syslog.3.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 44679 May 9 2013 /var/log/syslog.4.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 46240 May 8 2013 /var/log/syslog.5.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 41297 May 7 2013 /var/log/syslog.6.gz
> april:~#
>
> It looks like nothing has been written to syslog for the last eight
> years!


This may seem a stupid question ...
But you have checked the contents of the files haven't you ? I.e. checked that they were that old, and don't just have the wrong timestamp due to "some unknown problem" ?

Simon