Re: /var/log growing rapidly
Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>:
> On Wed November 19 2008, s. keeling wrote:
> > > I did a CTRL-ALT-F9 earlier that day, thinking I was switching to my
> > > OTHER user logged in, and those lines were on the screen, instead of the
> > > gdm login
> >
> > syslogd may be configured to send messages to that pty also. It's a
> > common prctice and probably not sinister.
>
> I just looked through /etc/syslog.conf, and I didn't see anything about a
> pty..
Sorry, this is part of the kernel configuration, I believe.
> 99.999% of the lines were comments.. except for this:
> # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it,
> # $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
> *.=notice;*.=warn |/dev/xconsole
>
> so... what is xconsole?
A very useful app if you can get it to work. It puts a small window
on your display that scrolls /var/log/messages constantly in real
time. It's very nice if you're changing something and want to know
the immediate effect it has.
In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root owned
process on a user's display, and once you get it going, the next
Debian release breaks your tweak, at least in my experience.
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