[NTLUG:Discuss] Why?

[Matt Moore]

One good way to view logins is using 'last'-It's pretty big, so you may
want to do something like:

last | less

this uses the lastlog-which is a log of ALL logins..
The reason you have two syslog files, is because it will start to split
them up when they become a certain size(sorry-I don't know the exact size)
Why it's not logging-don't know... check your processes(try 'ps ax') and
make sure syslogd is running, also make sure the permissions haven't
changed on the file('ls -l')....

Matt Moore
Operations Committee Member
Amarillo Linux Users Group
http://www.alug.org
mmoore at alug.org


On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Kelly Scroggins wrote:

> Why doesn't my /var/log/secure* file show any current logins (entries)?
> 
> The last entry I see is:
> Jul 22 23:04:03 myputer in.telnetd[3356]: connect from 151.4.126.131
> 
> It's in the ...secure.2 file.  Which is exactly like the secure.1 file.  And
> the secure (the first one) file is completely empty.
> 
> I have telneted and ftp'd in to this server several times since the date shown
> above.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> kelly
> 
> 
> 
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