https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663367
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=663367#c1
Petr Uzel
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.
Could you please be more specific? What crashes? What destroys the logfiles? Do they just disappear? How does rescues system help? Sorry, I'm confused.
Sometimes noentheless logrotate seems to make backups of messages; however they are always at least a year old and not of any value.
Logrotate's job is to rotate the logs if they are too big/old. It has nothing to do with backups...
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.
Why? Could you please elaborate more on this?
Reproducible: Always
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