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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If it's on a unix box check that some one has not
turned on log rotation for that directory. Are there log.0 etc file
there?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=CihanS@garanti.com.tr
href="mailto:CihanS@garanti.com.tr">Cihan Subasi (Garanti Teknoloji)</A> ; <A
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 26, 2008 9:19 AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [mrtg] .log files gets reset
automatically</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Do you have any
periodic cronjobs running on your server that look for (and delete) any and
all *.log files? If so, they’d be deleted, and the next run of MRTG
would recreate them as empty.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">If you do have such a
job, severely… re-educate… the person who wrote it, since doing a “find
/ -name *.log –exec rm {} \;” is just stupid coding. It should be
restricted to a specific tree that is known to be
safe.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch
[mailto:mrtg-bounces@lists.oetiker.ch] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On
Behalf Of </SPAN></B>Cihan Subasi (Garanti
Teknoloji)<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For the last 2-3 months at
midnight Central Time (GMT+6) I started havind some of my .log files
started to be reset without my intention. Is there a reason for that? I
assumed first because my .log file size reaches a limit but some of the .log
files arent't even 100K big.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What could be reason of having my
.log files to reset as they are run first time?
thanks</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<TD bgColor=#ffffff><FONT color=#000000><BR>Bu mesaj ve ekleri, mesajda
gonderildigi belirtilen kisi/kisilere ozeldir ve gizlidir. Bu mesajin
muhatabi<BR>olmamaniza ragmen tarafiniza ulasmis olmasi halinde mesaj
iceriginin gizliligi ve bu gizlilik yukumlulugune<BR>uyulmasi
zorunlulugu tarafiniz icin de soz konusudur. Mesaj ve eklerinde yer alan
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sirketimizin herhangi bir sorumlulugu bulunmamaktadir.
Sirketimiz<BR>mesajin ve bilgilerinin size degisiklige ugrayarak veya
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