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What happened? Why are they no longer present? And where I can find the same log information? Note that everything logged to messages was also logged to syslog. You can use the following line to check the real time progress of system. For example, you can open up the terminal and plug in a USB on your computer, the OS will log what type of USB, where is it mounting to, if the tracker-store.

Ubuntu Community Ask! Nov 15 mail kernel: klogd 1. Nov 15 mail kernel: Kernel logging proc stopped. It didn't log anything but the installation of lshw for several days, and the rest of the logging today is primarily a result of stopping and restarting the syslog service.

Ss syslogd -m 0 root 0. Ss klogd -x This is starting to look like a bug to me. This is very wierd. Is logrotate operating correctly? I've been running CentOS 5. Board index All times are UTC. They wrote the code for SSD. There were reports on this, and no solution, last time I heard. As for binary logs, with rsyslog you can keep the logs on several types of binary databases, like mysql. Bookmarks Bookmarks Digg del. All times are GMT The time now is Please see the new info in my question for details.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. This only has effect when used in combination with compress. Improve this answer. But now issue is that log. It's hard to say with just this info, but I can tell you what has saved me a few times.

CarpeNoctem CarpeNoctem 2, 3 3 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. I tried running logrotate manually like you suggested, and it tells me it's compressing the logs, but I don't find any compressed logs anywhere. See my question above for details. If it does then we know the globbing is failing due to gzip not running correctly. This will at least confirm that the lack of compression is to blame for the lack of rotation. Done, details added to the question above.

Another interesting point that I found out. When you enable -d option, logrotate command wouldn't touch the log files. Check the manual for more info. In debug mode, no changes will be made to the logs or to the logrotate state file. Consider trying this setting in your logrotate. Dennis Williamson Dennis Williamson 59k 14 14 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.