[NTLUG:Discuss] Why?

[Kelly Scroggins]

Thanks Matt,

I knew the file will "split" but the files are identical.  I was under the
impression that the second, third, etc. files would continue the logging process
sequentially.

I've checked the syslog process and it's running.  I'll try the last command

kelly


Matt Moore wrote:

> 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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