Re: Reserving space for mail on /var
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:09, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (22/06/04 11:42), Shri Shrikumar wrote:
> > I have a quick question - one of the servers that I manage have a
> > problem in that /var/log/syslog and /var/log/daemon.log get filled up
> > with a message from bind and subsequently bounces all mail since there
> > is no space left.
> >
> > What is the best solution for this? Do I have to create another mount
> > point for /var/spool/mail ? Quotas perhaps? Alternatively, how can I get
> > syslog to ignore the lines that fill the log up.
>
> Is this after using the new sarge d-i? I've experienced the same problem
> and had to delete these two log files to get packages installed. This
> was on a test system where only /home and swap are on separate
> partitions, whereas my production system has a separate /var
> partition. Nevertheless, it would seem that the new d-i is creating
> huge versions of these two logs (>1G each in the first day or so).
Hi Clive,
no, im using stable with var on a separate partition.
Shri
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