syslog broken in F10?

[Christopher Beland]

I did recently see weird problems with audit.log, due to rotation
problems I think triggered by some selinux denials.  It might be worth
checking the permissions on the old logs or seeing if "logrotate
--force /etc/logrotate.conf" works?

-B.

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 05:44 +0100, Dennis J. wrote:
> Hi,
> It seems that the syslog daemon overwrites the current /var/log/messages 
> after a reboot rather than appending to it. My machine just froze (either 
> an iscsi or ocfs2 issue) so after the reboot I tried to find some info in 
> the syslog but that only contains the entries since the reboot. The 
> previous logfile only contains entries between the 2nd and 9th of November.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this strange logging behaviour?
> 
> Regards,
>    Dennis
>