/var/log/messages

[Igor Gueths]

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Those are your rotated backlogs, for which logrotate took care of them. They will probably be expunged after a while, and replaced with new backlogs.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 02:24:55PM -0400, Erik Heil wrote:
> Hi their.  I deleted my /var/log/messages file in hope that I'd save some 
> space (it was approaching 75MB in size.)  I've noticed their are files 
> names messages.1, messages.2, etc.  WShould I have done this a different 
> way?  B/c from what I can see, /var/log/messages hasn't been re-created, 
> if that's what supposed to occur.  And what are the purpose of these .1, 
> .2, etc?  B/c I'm confused and couldn't find any documentation on what 
> they represent.  /var/log/lastlog is pretty self explanatory though.
> 
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