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I think I figured out the problem with MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher)
and the missing log files [1].

You see, when I installed the operating system, one of the optional packages
to install was MRTG. So I decided to install it. But unbeknownst to me (and
totally unconfigured mind you) as part of the installation, it was already
added to cron but not as part of the file you get when you run crontab -e
(because you know, just by the act of installing the software you must want
to use it immediately, even if it isn't fully configured yet, right?).

So every five minutes, two copies of the software were being run.

So no wonder the log files were getting munged.

Grrrrr.

You'd think that after ten years of Unix administration I'd get the hang of
things, but nooooooo! I guess I still expect to have to configure packages
and add them manually to cron if I want them.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/11/06.1

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