Syslog not rotating /var/log/messages

[Sam Kuper]

Dear all,
I've just noticed that despite syslog being set to rotate /var/log/messages
weekly, my var/log/messages file contains entries over a week old, and
moreover there are no var/log/messages.0 or var/log/messages.1.gz, etc.

How do I know that syslog is set to rotate /var/log/messages weekly? Well,
'syslogd-listfiles --weekly' returns, among other things, the line,
'/var/log/messages'.

Is this normal behaviour for Ubuntu?

My system: Ubuntu 8.04.1 server LTS on a Pentium 4 with 512MB RAM.

Regards,

Sam
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