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My Cron job is not running and i want to see what's problem in the syslog.

But that log is only showing current date only ,

Is there any way to keep logs for the last 10 days?

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The logs are most likely being rotated by the logrotate process. Look in /etc/logrotate.conf. You should see something like this:

daily

rotate 1

Change that to:

daily

rotate 10

You could also do something like this to keep 4 weeks of logs:

weekly

rotate 4
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  • i want to keep logs in one file only like in syslog for 1 month. how can i do that
    – John
    Apr 29, 2010 at 0:58
  • Keeping more then a couple of days in a single file is a really bad idea for any server out on the internet, as there's a bunch of things that people can do to cause your server to log junk. Having logrotate keep logs longer is ok. man logrotate should help.
    – LapTop006
    Apr 29, 2010 at 14:22
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Yesterdays log is /var/log/syslog.1. They are rotated daily about 6 in the morning. Previous days logs are syslog.2.gz... Use zless or zgrep to look at the compressed logs.

Data is likely in /var/log/messages as well. This is rotated weekly, and has four weeks of old logs.

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