Re: logs rapidly fill /var partition

[brownh@hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown)]

> 
> On Monday 09 February 2004 16:12, Haines Brown wrote:
> > > > The problem is that each of these logs ends up 120 Mb in size and
> > > > the remaining space in my 500 Mb /var partition quickly
> > > > disappears.
> 
> As an aside, wouldn't it be cool if you could tell logrotate how much 
> diskspace all the logs combined could be allowed to use, so that it 
> could rotate, compress and delete logs before they fill up the entire 
> partition?

Kjetil,

Yes, in fact my system did crash in my absense, presumably because of
this, and I lost hundreds of e-mail messages before that happened. So
the effect can be disastrous.

It seems to me such a script could certainly be written. It would find
and measure the size of the relevant log files, and when a threshhold
value is raeched, start deleting the highest numbered backup log,
until the total falls beneath the threshhold. I'm no good at writing
scripts, but what little I do know suggests such a utility would be
simple to design. 

Haines