Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

From	Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log
Date	2020-07-27 22:20 +0200
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Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 07:42:31PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Must be so because
>> 
>>  $ zgrep "2018.*.install " /var/log/dpkg* 
>> 
>> gives no output and so with 2017, 2016 and 2015, whereas for 2019 and 2020
>> there is output...
>
> You can use ls -l to see the datestamps on the files.
>
> You can zcat the oldest one, and pipe that through head, to see the
> oldest entries in the oldest file.  That'll tell you where your cutoff
> point is, more precisely than the datestamps (which will tell you the
> end of each individual file, but not the beginning).


Yes, thanks...  So turns it out to be only just May 2019 the cutoff point...

rodolfo

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About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-25 21:50 +0200
  Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 22:10 +0200
    Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-25 22:30 +0200
      Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 23:00 +0200
      Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2020-07-25 23:00 +0200
        Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-07-25 23:40 +0200
          Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 14:20 +0200
            Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 14:30 +0200
            Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 14:40 +0200
              Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 15:00 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 15:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 16:00 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 16:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 16:30 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 16:40 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 01:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-07-28 01:20 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-28 13:30 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-07-27 17:40 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 21:10 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 21:20 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 21:50 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-27 21:50 +0200
                Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2020-07-27 22:20 +0200

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