Weird log file size

[Tino Schwarze]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:04:12AM -0700, Noah Spurrier wrote:
> I'm running a RHES4 64-bit on a Dell 1850. This may be more of a generic
> Linux issue, but I am running a pretty stock configuration from Dell, so
> I figured others might have seen something like this.
> 
> Any idea why I might see this?
> 
>       # ls -l /var/log/lastlog
>       -r--------  1 root root 1254130450140 Jul  4 17:26 /var/log/lastlog

An invalid file size is usually a sign of filesystem corruption. fsck
recommended!

> Could this be a 32bit/64bit issue? Perhaps some sort of integer overflow or
> misrepresentation. Maybe this version of `ls` does not behave well on 64-bit
> machines.

I don't think so...

HTH,

Tino.

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