Re: /var/log growing rapidly
On Tue November 18 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> First, "tail -f /var/log/messages" to see exactly what all the new
> log entries are. That should point you towards the offender.
I rebooted, and it stopped doing it. I went back into messages.0 , which was
the LARGE file, and found lots, and lots, and lots of these lines:
Nov 17 07:53:24 paulandcilla kernel: [68956.446825] Unknown InputIN=lo OUT=
MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:08:00 SRC=127.0.0.1 DST=127.0.0.1
LEN=972 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=1103 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=53543 DPT=53543
LEN=952
Nov 17 07:53:24 paulandcilla kernel: [68956.446825] Unknown OutputIN= OUT=lo
SRC=127.0.0.1 DST=127.0.0.1 LEN=788 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=1104 DF
PROTO=UDP SPT=53543 DPT=53543 LEN=768
Nov 17 07:53:24 paulandcilla kernel: [68956.446825] Unknown InputIN=lo OUT=
MAC=00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:00:08:00 SRC=127.0.0.1 DST=127.0.0.1
LEN=788 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=1104 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=53543 DPT=53543
LEN=768
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
screen. Then did a CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to where I was, and was back to my
logged in account. Looks like gdm didn't like me going to that screen without
starting a new login session through the menus?
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459
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