Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:56:44PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these > grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the > filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must remove these >

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 08/11/2011 02:37 AM, David Baron wrote: On 08/11/2011 01:26 AM, David Baron wrote: This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Rob Owens
You could put /var/log in its own partition. That way when it's full it doesn't mess up anything else. Gnome gives an alert when a drive is nearly full (at least it does on my dad's Ubuntu machine). I'm not sure what the name of the daemon is, though. -Rob On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:56:44PM +0

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:56:44 +0300, David Baron wrote: > This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and > these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this > point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must > remove these two fil

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread David Baron
> On 08/11/2011 01:26 AM, David Baron wrote: > > This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and > > these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this > > point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must > > remove these two files

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 08/11/2011 01:26 AM, David Baron wrote: This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must remove these two files and reboot. The