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Re: Huge Log Files



On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:33:39PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> 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? 

try looking at whats in the logs, if they are really growing that fast
its probably the same message being spewed constanty by something.
(and no its not -- MARK -- )

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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