Weird log file size

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 08:19:58PM +0200, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> 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...
> 

I believe this is normal on a 64-bit system.

See:

  http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-November/055389.html
  https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-June/msg00308.html

Ray