fcol Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 My syslog has been resetting (cleared) at seemingly random intervals (a few days or up to 48 days of uptime). I know the server hasn't actually rebooted since the uptime is reporting accurately and I have some services that need to be manually started if I reboot. I don't see anything in the syslog except: Jan 5 04:40:01 Tower syslogd 1.4.1: restart. I'm running 5.0-rc5 with 8GB ECC (with tons of free memory). I guess I'm worried there could be a corruption in RAM - but wouldn't I have other stability issues? The server is rock solid otherwise (basically only runs Crashplan, Air Server, general media server). Is there a way to automatically write out the syslog periodically to disk (maybe cache drive)? Or can I have it email the syslog periodically? Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 It is by design. The current syslog is copied to syslog.1 when it gets over a certain size. (1Meg) Rules are defined in /etc/logrotate.conf Quote Link to comment
fcol Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 Got it - thanks! Quote Link to comment
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