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Anas_Hijjawi_44
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusLog Messages Disappeared
Hi, We were looking at the traffic logs, there was around 37 pages but suddenly all disappeared. We tried to search for them in the ltm1,2,3,4,5,6,7 files in the /var/log location but couldn't found them.
Any Idea about this issue
HamishCirrocumulus
Have the files themslves disappeared? Or are they suddenly 0 length? Or something else?
Anas_Hijjawi_44No file are still there but the /var/log/ltm file is empty, 0 length
- Hamish
I take it it didn't roll over and get compressed? What are the other /var/log/ltm.* files looking like?
H
- Anas_Hijjawi_44
the other 7 files are compressed and includes the older log messages
- Hamish
Sounds like the logs rollover ran while you were looking at the logs. Check the other gzip'ed log files. You should find your logs in there.
Other than that, the only real explanation is that someone flushed the ltm logfile by hand (e.g. an 'accidental' 'cat /dev/null > /var/log/ltm' or similar - maybe just rm'ed it (I think syslog-ng is set to autocreate the logsfiles isn't it?).
H
- Anas_Hijjawi_44
no it is not compressed