Russell Hires wrote: > I've got a problem: I'm running woody, and recently (in the last week or so) > two of the files in /var/log have become so large that KDE can't start, and > I'm unable to run some other applications. The two files that are 200 MB > each? kern.log and syslog. What could be making these two files so big? And > what could make them grow so quickly in the space of two days? And of > course, what can I do about it?
kern.log contains kernel output, syslog all kinds of system output. If they grow very fast that points at a problem with the kernel or a daemon. Anyway, the logs should get rotated daily so they don't grow faster all the time. If the machine isn't up 24h a day, install anacron. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
