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Subject: Re: dmesg.today->dmesg.yesterday
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Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> writes:

> How does dmesg.today get rotated to dmesg.yesterday?
> 
> I suspect my dmesg.today of being corrupted by old info.
> I have gotten the following message in my security output
> for the last four days:
> 
> pid 4062 (clamd), uid 3848: exited on signal 11
> 
> It appears in different places, but what are the chances of
> clamd acquiring pid 4062 four days in a row?

That diff is taken as part of the periodic/security checks.
I don't think it uses dmesg.today, though; I think it takes output
directly from dmesg(8)...