Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Ned Slider <ned@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday,
10th May).
I don't run the automated yum-updated and didn't run a yum update
yesterday, and no packages were installed. Obviously the entries are old.
I was wondering if anyone could offer an explanation?
Syslog does not print the year on log lines. Once I saw some strange
behaviour similar to yours. I had a script that grep'd the logs for
yesterday's date and sent it to me by e-mail. One day, I saw several
SSH attempts from IPs that were empty, and IPs being resolved to names
that were not the right ones. Then I logged in to the machine, looked
at /var/log/secure and realized what happened. The logs were over one
year old now. Maybe check /var/log/yum.log to see if that is what
happened.
I fixed that problem for yum by editing /etc/logrotate.d/yum and changing
"size 30k" to "size 10k". For CentOS, a 10 kilobyte log file is enough
to hold several months of yum activity, but small enough that the file
will be rotated before a year passes. You might also explore the
"monthly" or "yearly" options in logrotate. Right now I don't recall
what I didn't like about using those with the yum logs.
--
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Do NOT delete it.
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