/var/log gone ?

[scott]

On 10/20/2010 05:51 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 20/10/2010 20:41, scott wrote:
>    
>> I have just found the weirdest thing, I can't find any /var/log files.
>> I'm running 10.04.1 and can't quite wrap my head around this problem. I
>> think I've looked at them before, or maybe I got slack and haven't
>> looked since I upgraded to 10.04.1...? Is this truely a problem, or am I
>> looking in the wrong place.
>>
>>      
> Have you tried looking in the /var/log directory? :-)
>
>   From command line in terminal,
>
> cd /var/log
>
> or in mc (Midnight Commander) select /var/log
>
> or same in nautilus :-) .
>
> Perhaps yo have zapped the /var/log directory by some means and
> therefore cannot find it? As in having some cron setting which wipes
> this directory off the face of the earth?
>
> BC
>
>    
It's really a strange thing, indeed. When I wrote this last night, 
/var/log didn't show up after cd'ing into /var and ls -la. It didn't 
show up under System>Administration either. After I ran a RKHunter and a 
Tiger scan, they're back. Hmmmm.