Re: 54 GB in /var/log!!
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:49:32 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote:
Beartooth wrote:
[....]
> What could be causing this, and what do i do about it??
Probably something's gone wrong and is logging the same message over and
over again.
Quick way to find it:
cd /var/log
ls -ltrh
This list all files with the newest file last (your log file was
probably the last thing written), and with human readable file sizes.
You'll probably see one enormous file. If you don't see it then try the
same thing down a directory level
ls -ltrh */*
Once you've found the offending file do tail -500 [whatever file name]
to see the last messages written to it, it's probably going to be the
same thing over and over again.
Once you know what the message is you can look to fixing it. You can
also delete the offending file so your machine can start working again.
Hope this helps
As you'll've likely seen by now, I got a bit turned around when
suddenly startx no longer worked even for root, and whomped the bloated
file with Craig White's big hammer, before somebody gave me a better way
than I knew to look at it from the CLI.
So I'm back on the #1 machine, using the whole GUI as user, able
to c&p from gnome-terminal to Pan; but the bloat is gone. I *think* that
means the info those commands'd've gotten is gone, too.
At any rate, ls -ltrh found nothing bigger than about 300K.
ls -ltrh */* found somewhat bigger ones, but nothing remotely
near so horrendous as to run into gigabytes.
[root@Hbsk2 log]# ls -ltrh */*
-rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy privoxy 0 2008-09-02 08:34 privoxy/logfile
-r-------- 1 root root 5.1M 2008-09-17 16:23 audit/audit.log.3
-r-------- 1 root root 5.1M 2008-09-18 00:21 audit/audit.log.2
-r-------- 1 root root 5.1M 2008-09-18 08:19 audit/audit.log.1
-rw------- 1 root lp 345 2008-09-19 17:31 cups/page_log-20080920
[....]
-rw------- 1 root root 728 2008-10-27 11:51 mail/statistics
-rw------- 1 root root 3.3M 2008-10-27 12:01 audit/audit.log
samba/old:
total 0
[root@Hbsk2 log]#
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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck
Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User
I have precious (very precious)
little idea where up is.