From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 00:37:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D3D016A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:37:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035ED43D4C for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:37:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k0H0bcKF014302; Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:37:41 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1137444617.7255.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1137444617.7255.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:37:37 -0500 To: Jason King , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.3 Cc: Subject: Re: log file rotation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:37:43 -0000 At 2:50 PM -0600 1/16/06, Jason King wrote: >My maillog and daillog files have stopped rotating everyday >like they use to. I have 2 FBSD machines that have stopped >these files from rotating as of Dec 15th. I have no idea what >could have caused two different machines to have the same >thing happen to them. The entry in my newsyslog.conf file is >correct. There is no reason these files shouldn't be rotating >daily like before. Anyone have any ideas on what to look for? Check timestamps on the various files. perhaps some kind of timewarp happened. Check to make sure newsyslog is still being run from cron. (do you have other files which are rotating, but just those two are not rotating?) Run: newsyslog -vv and see if it tells you anything interesting. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA