For some reason my log files on my server (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) are writing to the *.log.1 files instead of the *.log files, e.g. for my Postfix log files it is writing to /var/log/mail.log.1 and not /var/log/mail.log as expected. Same goes for mail.err.
It looks like it's also doing it for auth.log and syslog. Here is a ls -lt snippet of my /var/log directory, showing the more recently touched log files in reverse chronological order
Code:
$ ls -lt /var/log/
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 5389672 Dec 20 01:30 auth.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 5596428 Dec 20 01:30 syslog.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3351752 Dec 20 01:29 mail.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 375366 Dec 20 01:28 denyhosts
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3028 Dec 19 19:52 fail2ban.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 Dec 19 06:29 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 mysql adm 0 Dec 19 06:29 mysql.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 19 06:29 procmail.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 495 Dec 19 03:40 kern.log.1
...
And here's just the mail files:
Code:
$ ls -l /var/log/mail.*
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 Dec 9 06:51 /var/log/mail.err
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 887 Dec 6 13:45 /var/log/mail.err.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 129 Nov 30 01:57 /var/log/mail.err.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 0 Dec 16 06:31 /var/log/mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3352098 Dec 20 01:32 /var/log/mail.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 331704 Dec 9 06:45 /var/log/mail.log.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 235751 Dec 2 06:40 /var/log/mail.log.3.gz
Is there something that is misconfigured? I restarted postfix and it still wrote to mail.log.1 afterwards. The mail logs rotate weekely on sunday @ 6:30am so it looks like maybe the logs rotated, but continued to write to the "old" log which is now mail.log.1?
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