I am running centos 7 LAMP server with webmin and recently disabled mailman from the bootup and shutdown module of webmin and then rebooted the system. I am positive my log files(such as maillog, cron, secure) were correct and in date order before i rebooted.
I then went to view my maillog after the reboot and found all the entries have been jumbled up like so :
Nov 7
Nov 7
Nov 7
oct 12
oct 12
oct 12
nov 8
nov 8
nov 8
nov 8
nov 8
Nov 7
Nov 7
This has also happened for other log files such as secure
and cron
.
I have tried Force Log Rotation which fails and produces no output for the fail.
I have also tried to restart mailman and reboot as well as restarting rsyslog
service but the log files are still out of date order.
If my log files are out of chronological date order will this affect the general functioning of my server?
Any help would be much appreciated.