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rsyslog package

  1. Bug #115774
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 115774

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Cameron Scott (quikyn) wrote : Re: syslog.0 and kern.log.0 grow huge

I've just recently upgraded to Ibex and started having this problem, except so far it hasn't gone away.

I upgraded a few days ago, and two days ago my computer suddenly went under massive load and froze up. I eventually managed to get to a tty to see a kernel logging error message being repeated many times over. I had no real control so I did a hard reset, X failed due to no HDD space, etc. I then found the following log files:

-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2147483647 kern.log.0
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2147483647 messages.0
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 2147483647 syslog.0
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 1523269632 kern.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 1523269632 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 1428373504 messages

I removed them and all was well again, except just now the problem repeated itself. So far all I have done to investigate or resolve the problem is remove the log files. I'm not aware of altering any cron jobs or any other behaviour that could have caused this, and it appears to have only begun to occur since installing Ibex.

I can post later with any information requested.

Um, in the last ten minutes or so it appears that 500mb of disk space has been used on logging ... I'll check back later today.