[NCLUG] Syslog Size

[mbutcher]

Check your cron scripts. You're probably rotating logs. When logs rotate, you 
retain the handle on the old file descriptor even though a new one is created 
for the "new" syslog file.

On Monday 25 March 2002 10:05 am, you wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> How or where would I go to change the max size that the syslog file can
> get?  Or maybe something else is happening.  Last week I had a term open
> monitoring syslog, however when I opened syslog with an editor it wasn't
> logging anything after Friday.  It was still displaying in the tail -f term
> however.  After it was archived on Sunday it started logging again.
> Syslog was about half a meg when it stopped logging.
>
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
> ***************************************
> Chris Funk
> Golden Coast Management
> chris at goldencoast.com
>
>
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