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.****
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