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ALInux 02-10-2006 05:21 AM
my /var/log/syslog only logs the last 12 hours or so
 
Hi
My connection keeps disconnecting so I wanted to check my syslog file for diagnostics...but it seems that it only logged the last 6 hours after a restart following an electricity failure.
Another thing, is there a seperate log file for the pppoe connection >?

Thx

Nathanael 02-10-2006 07:10 AM
did you find files in /var/log named syslog.1 or syslog.2.gz ?

ALInux 02-10-2006 04:23 PM
Yeah....I did not check them though...those are archive files right >>??
Anyway ...I got the info I wanted.... I checked /var/log/messages and found the system alerts I was searching for. Thx for the help

Nathanael 02-11-2006 04:18 AM
logrotate will run every once in a while, each time it will move content from syslog into syslog.x and the others will be moved to syslog.x+1.gz

ALInux 02-11-2006 10:53 AM
Aha thx for the info


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