Weird log file size

[Diego_Leccardi at Dell.com]

Have a look at this article: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_85_5627.shtm



-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com on behalf of Noah Spurrier
Sent: Thu 7/5/2007 7:04 PM
To: linux-poweredge-Lists
Subject: Weird log file size
 
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

      # ls -lh /var/log/lastlog
      -r--------  1 root root 1.2T Jul  4 17:26 /var/log/lastlog

I don't have a 1.2 TB drive, so I'm sure the lastlog is not really 1.2 TB in
size.

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.

Yours,
Noah

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