My /var/log/files are very strange - someone know what is it?

[IRCBrasil]

HI, i dont know why, but the server is writing the logfiles wrong, look the name and data of each log:

   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan 22 04:03 boot.log
   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan 15 04:03 boot.log.1
   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan  8 04:03 boot.log.2
  36 -rw-------   1 root     root    32303 Jan 23 13:17 boot.log.3
   8 -rw-------   1 root     root      144 Dec 30 00:01 boot.log.4



   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan 22 04:03 maillog
   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan 15 04:03 maillog.1
   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan  8 04:03 maillog.2
9640 -rw-------   1 root     root  9849233 Jan 23 13:17 maillog.3
2436 -rw-------   1 root     root  2482214 Jan  1 06:09 maillog.4



   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan 22 04:03 messages
   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan 15 04:03 messages.1
   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan  8 04:03 messages.2
7528 -rw-------   1 root     root  7691546 Jan 23 13:17 messages.3
2512 -rw-------   1 root     root  2561209 Jan  1 07:02 messages.4




   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan 22 04:03 secure
   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan 15 04:03 secure.1
   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan  8 04:03 secure.2
 992 -rw-------   1 root     root  1005856 Jan 23 13:17 secure.3
2108 -rw-------   1 root     root  2147580 Jan  1 05:28 secure.4


   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan 22 04:03 cron
   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan 15 04:03 cron.1
   4 -rw-------   1 root     root        0 Jan  8 04:03 cron.2
1140 -rw-------   1 root     root  1157703 Jan 23 13:15 cron.3
 308 -rw-------   1 root     root   303875 Jan  1 07:02 cron.4

For example, the system should be writting on messages and not on messages.3

Someone knows what to do? i never saw this before.

Thank you!

[chirpy]

It's not doing the postrotate properly. Try:

service syslog restart

[IRCBrasil]

wow great

Tanks a lot for your help!