[CentOS] Re: Today's log - yum entries

Sun May 11 14:24:57 UTC 2008
Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net>

Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Ned Slider <ned at unixmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>  I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday,
>> 10th May).
>>
>>  I don't run the automated yum-updated and didn't run a yum update
>> yesterday, and no packages were installed. Obviously the entries are old.
>>
>>  I was wondering if anyone could offer an explanation?
> 
> Syslog does not print the year on log lines. Once I saw some strange
> behaviour similar to yours. I had a script that grep'd the logs for
> yesterday's date and sent it to me by e-mail. One day, I saw several
> SSH attempts from IPs that were empty, and IPs being resolved to names
> that were not the right ones. Then I logged in to the machine, looked
> at /var/log/secure and realized what happened. The logs were over one
> year old now. Maybe check /var/log/yum.log to see if that is what
> happened.

I fixed that problem for yum by editing /etc/logrotate.d/yum and changing
"size 30k" to "size 10k".  For CentOS, a 10 kilobyte log file is enough
to hold several months of yum activity, but small enough that the file
will be rotated before a year passes.  You might also explore the
"monthly" or "yearly" options in logrotate.  Right now I don't recall
what I didn't like about using those with the yum logs.

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