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Gilles wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 	On a FreeBSD 6.3 server sitting in a corner of the office not doing
> much work,  I noticed that /var/log/messages was turned over and has
> been empty since 26 June:
> 
> # tail /var/log/messages
> Jun 26 16:00:00 freebsd newsyslog[5320]: logfile turned over due to
> size>100K
> 
> # ll /var/log/        
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel          78 26 jui 16:00 messages
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        8396 26 jui 16:00 messages.0.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        8329 30 mar 11:00 messages.1.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        8663  2 mar  2009 messages.2.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        9640 20 déc  2008 messages.3.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        6554 17 oct  2008 messages.4.bz2
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel        5825 17 oct  2008 messages.5.bz2
> (jui = June, jul = July)
> 
> I don't have enough experience with FreeBSD to understand the cause
> for this, and how to solve it, so would appreciate any suggestion.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
Based on the dates of the messages logs looks like not much is being
logged for a whole year at a time. So what you are seeing is normal.