I've been lucky enough to never experience this bug on my machines, but I'd like to provide my 2 cents about what could cause the issue. The log rotation system seems to be configured to rotate once a day:
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 125K 2011-09-13 17:15 syslog -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 86K 2011-09-13 07:40 syslog.1 -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3,7K 2011-09-12 07:45 syslog.2.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 3,9K 2011-09-11 08:05 syslog.3.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 5,0K 2011-09-10 07:35 syslog.4.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 4,5K 2011-09-09 08:00 syslog.5.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 4,5K 2011-09-08 08:05 syslog.6.gz -rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 6,9K 2011-09-07 08:00 syslog.7.gz (this is from my personal machine) If the rotation takes place once a day regardless of size, the logfile can grow very big if there are many processes which generate a lot of "noise". HTH -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115774 Title: syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/115774/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
