Its not a matter of time but of file size.  Apparently gzip has (or had) some limitation it needed to honer before the file got to the limit.

BTW, I found the easoest way to grep for something in one of the compressed archives was to use something like
  zcat /var/log/syslog.2.gz | grep cron | less

Larry

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Stephen <cryptworks@gmail.com> wrote:

But you seem to have done that part allready. You can check timestamps to get a real sense of time logged.

On May 8, 2012 10:44 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
So I get it.... it saves a total of 8 logs 6 of which are compressed and so how long is each log a record of? From my inspection of the log it seems as if it covers a little more than a day. Teach mw about this! I'm all ears!

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
you guys are so helpful. Well, there is a /var/log/syslog and syslog.1 but after that it is syslog.2-7.gz, not 'z'. Does that sound right? Which is the most recent?

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth@smartstoragesys.com> wrote:

You should see syslog.0, syslog.1, etc.  (possibly with .z on the end).  Those are your older logs.

 

rusty

 


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