my /var/log/syslog only logs the last 12 hours or so

ALInux · 02-10-2006, 05:21 AM

Hi
My connection keeps disconnecting so I wanted to check my syslog file for diagnostics...but it seems that it only logged the last 6 hours after a restart following an electricity failure.
Another thing, is there a seperate log file for the pppoe connection >?

Thx

Nathanael · 02-10-2006, 07:10 AM

did you find files in /var/log named syslog.1 or syslog.2.gz ?

ALInux · 02-10-2006, 04:23 PM

Yeah....I did not check them though...those are archive files right >>??
Anyway ...I got the info I wanted.... I checked /var/log/messages and found the system alerts I was searching for. Thx for the help

Nathanael · 02-11-2006, 04:18 AM

logrotate will run every once in a while, each time it will move content from syslog into syslog.x and the others will be moved to syslog.x+1.gz

ALInux · 02-11-2006, 10:53 AM

Aha thx for the info