On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:34 +0100, michael wrote:
I can't recall doing anything 'wrong' but I now notice
most of my log
files are, unexpectedly, empty (see example, below). Anybody care to
suggest how I can debug why this is so? Thanks, M
mkb@veri:/var/log$ ls -lt |head -33
total 163828
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 321792 2008-07-01 10:29 wtmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28525 2008-07-01 10:14 Xorg.0.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-07-01 10:14 gdm/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 26360 2008-07-01 10:13 dmesg
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-07-01 10:13 sa/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 292584 2008-06-30 22:43 lastlog
-rw------- 1 root utmp 164902656 2008-06-30 22:28 btmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 lp sys 4096 2008-06-30 20:52 cups/
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2008-06-30 20:00 tiger/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29008 2008-06-30 16:49 Xorg.0.log.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52438 2008-06-30 09:13 rpmpkgs
-rw------- 1 root root 252 2008-06-29 17:08 yum.log
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-29 04:38 boot.log
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-29 04:38 cron
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-29 04:38 maillog
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-29 04:38 messages
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-29 04:38 secure
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-29 04:38 setroubleshoot/
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-29 04:38 spooler
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52403 2008-06-28 04:39 rpmpkgs.1
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2008-06-26 22:59 audit/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 827985 2008-06-25 10:46 scrollkeeper.log
-rw------- 1 root root 30920 2008-06-25 10:46 yum.log.1
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-23 14:30 boot.log.1
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-23 14:30 cron.1
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-23 14:30 maillog.1
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-23 14:30 messages.1
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-23 14:30 secure.1
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-23 14:30 spooler.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52208 2008-06-21 04:39 rpmpkgs.2
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-15 04:38 boot.log.2
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-15 04:38 cron.2
and here's my
mkb@veri:/var/log$ cat /etc/syslog.conf
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.* /dev/console
# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages
# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.* /var/log/secure
# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*
-/var/log/maillog
# Log cron stuff
cron.* /var/log/cron
# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg *
# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.* /var/log/boot.log
mkb@veri:/var/log$