On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:57:32PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Russell Hires wrote: > > > I've got a problem: I'm running woody, and recently (in the last week or so) > > two of the files in /var/log have become so large that KDE can't start, and > > I'm unable to run some other applications. The two files that are 200 MB > > each? kern.log and syslog. What could be making these two files so big? And > > what could make them grow so quickly in the space of two days? And of > > course, what can I do about it? > > kern.log contains kernel output, syslog all kinds of system output. If they > grow very fast that points at a problem with the kernel or a daemon. definitly. > Anyway, the logs should get rotated daily so they don't grow faster all the weekly not daily. > time. If the machine isn't up 24h a day, install anacron. > > > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer > CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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