Re: /var/log growing rapidly

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 11/17/08 21:05, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I don't know what changed, but I think an update must have changed a parameter 
> or something. there are a bunch of log files that are now growing lots faster 
> * bigger than they were 2 days ago: messages, kern.log, daemon.log, syslog. 
> see:
> :/var/log# ls -l mess*
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm 103306889 2008-11-17 21:53 messages
[snip]
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm        234861 2008-11-16 08:05 syslog.1.gz
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm   34629008 2008-11-17 07:53 syslog.0
> -rw-r----- 1 root adm  106372318 2008-11-17 21:54 syslog
>
> how do I turn down these logs??

First, "tail -f /var/log/messages" to see exactly what all the new 
log entries are.  That should point you towards the offender.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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