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 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 27868134 2008-11-17 07:53 messages.0 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 3264 2008-11-16 08:05 messages.1.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 495379 2008-11-13 07:49 messages.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 15798 2008-11-09 08:14 messages.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 2089 2008-11-02 08:09 messages.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 5948 2008-10-19 07:46 messages.5.gz
# ls -ltr sys* -rw-r----- 1 root adm 114684 2008-11-11 07:58 syslog.6.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 201577 2008-11-12 07:58 syslog.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 849332 2008-11-13 07:51 syslog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 383545 2008-11-14 08:04 syslog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 root adm 233439 2008-11-15 07:58 syslog.2.gz -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?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
