https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663367 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663367#c0 Summary: logrotate fails to backup /var/log/messages & /var/log/warn Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: estellnb@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 SUSE/3.6.13-0.2.1 Firefox/3.6.13 If there was a crash I always have to boot a rescue system because otherwise important files like /var/log/messages and /var/log warn are destroyed. Sometimes noentheless logrotate seems to make backups of messages; however they are always at least a year old and not of any value. You will usually need the last messages and warn from rsyslogd as Xorg provides an Xorg.0.log.old or the kernel a /var/log/boot.omsg. Consequently I would suggest a logrotate -f to be called early enough in the boot process and logrotate to be configured appropriately (rotate 2, no dateext, no compress) for this purpose. Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.