Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2430 mails)

["Dirk Moolman" <DirkM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am trying to pull information from one of my servers, for a specific
login.   When I run the "last" command for that login, it only gives me
info for the last 4 days, but I know this login has been active for
longer than that.

> From what I read in the /etc/logrotate.conf file below (from my server),
wtmp must be configured separately, and is not included with the other
logs. Is this correct ?

Question 2:
Does my system read /etc/logrotate.d/wtmp, which means even if it is not
set in logrotate.conf, it is still set in logrotate.d ?

> From what I can gather from the 2 files below, /var/log/wtmp will have a
max age of 365 days (is kept for a year), and will be rotated for 99
weeks.  Why am I not picking up all the info for this login ?


The size of the wtmp file:
ls -la /var/log/wtmp
-rw-rw-r--  1 root tty 892800 Apr 21 17:23 /var/log/wtmp


/etc/logrotate.conf shows:
--------------------------

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# uncomment these to switch compression to bzip2
#compresscmd /usr/bin/bzip2
#uncompresscmd /usr/bin/bunzip2

# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
#/var/log/wtmp {
#    monthly
#    create 0664 root utmp
#    rotate 1
#}

# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.



And /etc/logrotate.d/wtmp shows:
--------------------------------

/var/log/wtmp {
    compress
    dateext
    maxage 365
    rotate 99
    size=+-400k
    notifempty
    missingok
    copytruncate
}




Dirk



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