Re: /var/log growing rapidly
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:12:20 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue,25.Nov.08, 18:58:19, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET)
> > "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > > so... what is xconsole?
> > >
> > > A very useful app if you can get it to work. It puts a small window
> > > on your display that scrolls /var/log/messages constantly in real
> > > time. It's very nice if you're changing something and want to know
> > > the immediate effect it has.
> >
> > What are the advantages over 'tail -f /var/log/messages'?
>
> AFAICT you can configure your syslog daemon to send only specific
> messages to xconsole.
I'm no expert on this stuff, but IIUC, you can tell syslogd to send
*anything* *anywhere*, so why not just tell it to send certain messages
to something like /var/log/important-messages, and then tail that?
> Andrei
Celejar
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