newsyslog: chmod(/var/log/auth.log.6.bz2) in change_attrs: No such file or directory
This problem was difficult to figure out. The cause was simple, but not obvious. Messages such as this were appearing in emails From July: In August: I had no idea why. My initial suspicion was the /etc/newsyslog.conf configuration for that file: [dan@knew:~] $ grep auth /etc/newsyslog.conf /var/log/auth.log root:logcheck 640 7 * @T00 JC [dan@knew:~] $ That count is 7, so why is it complaining about 6? The files look ok: [dan@knew:~] $ ls […]
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