Re: way to duplicate logs?

From: randall ehren (randall_at_ucsb.edu)
Date: 12/11/04

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    Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:49:40 -0800
    To: Bob Ababurko <ababurko@adelphia.net>
    
    

    > I am bit confused here. I have just had some issues with my box and I
    > am looking for some opinions. I just had been denied access to my
    > box...supposedly from a memory shortage in reference to my NIC....more
    > specifically, mbuf clusters exhausted. Now I am looking in my
    > /var/log/messages for when this started and I notice a discrepancy in my
    > logs. Now from where I am looking, I see time in the logs go backwards.
    > You can see it as soon as the box is rebooted. Is there an explanation
    > for this?

    it could be that your BIOS time is conflicting with freebsd's - during
    your install did you select "YES" for "Does your BIOS keep track of
    time?" or whatever the question is...

    > The date on the box should not have changed during that reboot, as it
    > was in sync with ntp and still is.

    are you sure ntp is running?
      to check: root@box[~]% \ps -waux | grep ntp

    > Also, is there a way to make more than one copy of these logs?....I am
    > not sure how this is set up and but I would like to possibly have
    > another set of logs in place so if someone is editing them, I can catch
    > it. I know there is a chance that I may be overreacting., but just in
    > case I want to know.

    you can setup another machine to receive logs:
      http://isber.ucsb.edu/~randall/instructions/loghost/

    or just % man 5 syslog.conf

      -randall

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