Re: auth.log empty

On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:50:13 +0000, Chronos wrote:

> After replacing rainer with a small shell script on Friday 30 Dec 2005
> 00:35, the following appeared on stdout:
>
>> I still cannot believe that it just has erased my logfile comlpletely.
>
> Nor can I.
>
> As root:
>
> bzcat /var/log/auth.log.0.bz2
>
> Anything? The default is to save up to auth.log.6.bz2 in newsyslog.conf.


Hi

I did "bzcat /var/log/auth.log.0.bz2" and there was my auth.log.
I found nothing suspicios there. I has logged till 30 00:00:00
and the last line was:
Dec 30 00:00:00 myname newsyslog[24055]: logfile turned over due to size>100K

and now my /var/log/auth.log is back, my old logs are back there.
Did bzcat do the trick ?

Thanks



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