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Old 04-19-2012
Why there are /var/adm/messages.0,messages.1,messages.2,messages.3
Hi folks,

In what circumstance does the log move to
/var/adm/messages.0.......messages.1,messages.2,messages.3 .......etc

---------- Post updated at 06:23 PM ---------- Previous update was at 06:17 PM ----------

To make my questions more understandable,
What are the processes that write to "/var/adm/messages"? From what I gathered Syslogd does the job. Am i right?
Also I saw multiple files, messages, messages.0, messages.1 and so on. Why is it so?
Also is there any other system process that writes to these files?
Any help is highly appreciated.
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Old 04-19-2012
The files are 'log rotated' - that means the current one (see ls -l [filename]) is this weeks file, file.5 is from five weeks ago. This allows you to keep messages organized by time/date. After a while the files are aged out - deleted when they are old.
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Old 04-19-2012
Does that mean /var/adm/messages are this week's files?
And /var/adm/messages.1 are files one week ago?
How about /var/adm/messages.0?
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Old 04-19-2012
It just means the logfiles were copied and reopened so they could be compressed and to prevent individual logs from getting too big. The exact details and timing depends on your log rotation system and can vary from system to system. They're likely configurable.

It would make sense for .0 to come before .1, look at them with ls -l to see which came first.
Last edited by Corona688; 04-19-2012 at 11:38 AM..
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Old 04-19-2012
It's quite common to write a script to copy (then null) logs to a file with suffix equal to date +%w (day of the week where Sunday=0 ... like in cron).

You could post a directory listing?
 
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