The strangest thing.

I was just diagnosing a webalizer issue, when I noticed that /usr/sbin/logrotate and /etc/logrotate.conf were missing.

The apt and auth logs didn't show anything amiss, so I don't think I've been hacked.

Firstly, could someone post the default /etc/logrotate.conf from Debian 5 here, please. I can't find it online, and re-installing logrotate does not create the file.

Also, any clues as to why these files would have disappeared?

Cheers,
Richard

OK, found a copy of logrotate.conf.

 # see "man logrotate" for details
  # rotate log files weekly
  weekly

  # keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
  rotate 4

  # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
  create

  # uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
  #compress

  # packages drop log rotation information into this directory
  include /etc/logrotate.d

  # no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
  /var/log/wtmp {
      monthly
      create 0664 root utmp
      rotate 1
  }

  /var/log/btmp {
      missingok
      monthly
      create 0664 root utmp
      rotate 1
  }

  # system-specific logs may be configured here

But, why did these disappear? There's nothing in the shell history, nothing in the auth logs.

Very, very odd.