From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 22 3:10:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kooga-media.com (unknown [216.122.137.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5E237B4C5 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:10:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from morrison.estranged.net (postfix@1Cust214.tnt2.libertyville.il.da.uu.net [63.46.212.214]) by kooga-media.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09690; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:11:13 GMT Received: by morrison.estranged.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F5053162; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:10:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:10:03 -0600 From: Chris Fisher To: Dan Larsson Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: /var/log/*.offset files, what are they? Message-ID: <20001122051002.A19383@morrison.estranged.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from dl@tyfon.net on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:17:04AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, November 22, 2000, Dan Larsson wrote: > I haven't noticed them since a couple of days ago, what are they for? > > > % ls -l /var/log/*.offset > -rw------- 1 root wheel 12 Nov 15 21:56 /var/log/maillog.offset > -rw------- 1 root wheel 10 Nov 15 21:56 /var/log/messages.offset > -rw------- 1 root wheel 9 Nov 15 21:56 /var/log/mpd.log.offset > -rw------- 1 root wheel 11 Nov 15 21:56 /var/log/sshd.log.offset > % uname -sr > FreeBSD 4.2-BETA > % > > Any ideas? Probably from logcheck port (/usr/ports/security/logcheck). logcheck's INSTALL file explains what they're for. Chris Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message