Syslog not rotating /var/log/messages

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Sam Kuper <sam at samkuper.com> wrote:
> 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

Nope - not normal behaviour - witness
-rw-r----- 1 syslog   adm      221520 2008-11-14 11:13 messages
-rw-r----- 1 syslog   adm      348605 2008-11-12 07:56 messages.0
-rw-r----- 1 syslog   adm       60766 2008-11-05 10:03 messages.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog   adm       46182 2008-10-28 08:41 messages.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog   adm       32060 2008-10-21 08:03 messages.3.gz

Brian