On 14 July 2010 20:58, Frank Murphy <frankl...@gmail.com> wrote: > My /var/log/messages > > seems to have started hording info. > It is now 112mb in size. > Covers 3-4 days of info.
Unless this is a busy server, then that seems rather excessive to say the least - mine is currently 14kB, but I redirect quite a bit of stuff into other files. If I had to guess I'd say your log level details have been changed, or something is suddenly generating a lot of syslog entries/content. The former can be fixed by tweaking "/etc/rsyslog.conf", the latter by inspecting the log file and seeing what is generating the bulk of the content. If it's not immediately obvious what is broken*, posting a sample the log file here would be a great help. * "broken" here includes the particularly verbose and annoyingly multi-line (AKA "next to useless for automatic handling") messages output by certain application servers - Tomcat being my particular bete noir... -- Andy The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
