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. > > By the way, you say "today's log file", but to what log file are you > referring? The output you show is not from /var/log/yum.log, is it > some post processing? > > HTH, > Filipe Yes, you're absolutely right Filipe, I just noticed it myself. The logs are from syslog?? emailed to root each day. When I checked /var/log/yum.log as Akemi suggested, indeed there were matching entries for 10 May, but from 2007 without the year present, so it looks like syslog parsed /var/log/yum.log and returned anything matching '10 may'. Thanks for your help! Ned