[CentOS] Year in log files
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.frThu Jun 23 12:36:38 UTC 2011
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Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On >> Behalf Of Fajar Priyanto >> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 22:23 >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Year in log files >> >> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM, lists-centos >> <replies-lists-b3z2-centos at listmail.innovate.net> wrote: >>> You should set that log to rotate annually. That should address your >>> issue, in addition to keeping logwatch from picking up year-old >>> entries. >> >> Yes it's rotated annually. >> That's why I can argue based on common sense, by comparing the CESA >> date and the occurance in the log file. >> But if there is year, I don't have to argue at all with the auditor. > > Two suggestions, > 1) look for 'yum: Updated:' in the messages log, which should be rotated > a bit more often (and the auditor was probably fine with the time stamps > there), and if syslog is being directed to a log collector the log > collector may have different settings. > > 2) look at `rpm -qa --last` for at least the currently installed > versions, it does include the full year stamp. > If needed the auditor could link timestamps from the rpm database to > the yum log. you could also use logrpminstalls (available in rpmforge), which logs in /var/log/rpminstalls every rpm that gets installed with a timestamp that includes the year.
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