On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 08:06:07AM +0000, Upadhyay Manas Vijay (PSI) wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and am facing a weird problem with syslog. I > found that the kern.log files are exceptionally large compared to > other files. (there were several kern.log files, I deleted the older > versions). The latest ken.log file is currently occupying 37.9 GB > space. This started happening three days ago. I had a user program > running and I locked my computer screen. After a few hours when I > logged back in I found that my diskspace was zero. This happened again > yesterday. In principle, this program shouldn't be the cause of the > program because I have run the same code without modifications before > and it didn't generate large amounts of data. I am not sure where the > problem comes from. Perhaps you could help.
It's probably bug 1630516[1] for which there is currently a package in -proposed to fix the problem. The bug report's description and some comments contain detailed information about how to enabled -proposed and test the package. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/logrotate/+bug/1630516 -- Brian Murray Ubuntu Bug Master
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