rsyslog

[Frank McCormick]

On 06/15/2013 03:43 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 15:40 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> Update wants to replace rsyslog on my system- I have downgraded
>> rsyslog to
>> handle the "spamming log problem".
>>
>>
>> [root at franksfedora19 frank]# yum update
>> Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
>> Resolving Dependencies
>> --> Running transaction check
>> ---> Package rsyslog.i686 0:7.2.6-1.fc19 will be updated
>> ---> Package rsyslog.i686 0:7.4.0-1.fc19 will be an update
>> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Is it safe now to allow it to be upgraded ?
> if you have updated to systemd 204-8, it ought to be safe.

     I have.

> If you have inflated logs from the SELinux accounts-daemon bug, then
> rsyslog will still run the CPU to 100% for some time after the upgrade,
> because it'll be writing the entire journal out to /var/log/messages;
> but it will eventually complete and quiet down. Personally I recommend
> pruning the journal first if you have a huge journal full of those
> SELinux messages - if your system logs aren't that important to you, you
> can safely just blow away the larger (over 10MB) files
> in /var/log/journal and that should trim the journal down to a
> reasonable size.


     I chose to delete....seems to be running fine...but I'll keep an 
eye on it for a while.

Thanks

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