Re: /var/log growing rapidly

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Subject: Re: /var/log growing rapidly
From: "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:05 +0100 (CET)
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Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>:
> 
>  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 

syslogd may be configured to send messages to that pty also.  It's a
common prctice and probably not sinister.


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