Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 11:57:13 dhk wrote: > I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had > this kernel for almost four months. That's how long it's taken to fill your disk up. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread dhk
On 08/17/2010 07:17 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > dhk writes: > >> I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had this >> kernel for almost four months. Shouldn't the log's be rotated and >> purged? > > Depends on your system logger. Metalog does this automatically, but for > ot

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: > I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had this > kernel for almost four months. Shouldn't the log's be rotated and > purged? Depends on your system logger. Metalog does this automatically, but for others you probably have to install logrotate. Wonk

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread dhk
On 08/17/2010 02:45 AM, Florian CROUZAT wrote: > > On 17 août 2010, at 02:58, Adam Carter wrote: > >>> Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete >>> Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 >>> Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempti

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread Florian CROUZAT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 août 2010, at 02:58, Adam Carter wrote: >> Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete >> Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 >> Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-16 Thread Adam Carter
> Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete > Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 > Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get CSW... > Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: usb_stor_bulk_transfer_buf: > xfer 13 bytes >

[gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-16 Thread dhk
Last week I got a message the my /var partition was almost full. Since it was 10G and I am using lvm2 I added 5G more to it. This evening I got the same message, now I had to investigate. When I did I found that /var/log/messages is huge. # ls -lh /var/log/messages -rw--- 1 root root 12G Au