Log not rotating in Fedora 16.

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:
> On 2012-01-12 22:13, William Case wrote:
>> Hi;
>> I get the following warning on boot up "The volume "File system root"
>> has only 249.6 MiB disk space remaining".  I think I have traced the
>> problem to syslog not rotating. Messages-xxxxx in /var/log/ is up to 1.4
>> + GiB.  How would you suggest I get the proper log rotation?  Or, where
>> else do you suggest I look?
>
> Is crond enabled?  Try
> systemctl status crond.service
>
> When I upgraded from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15 (introduction of systemd),
> crond was no longer enabled.  I noticed that many months (and megabytes)
> later.
>
> If it isn't enabled, enable it with
> systemctl enable crond.service
> systemctl start crond.service

WOW! Thanks!

I just checked and my /var/log/messages was up to 84MB! I'm not sure
what happened in my case as F15 was a fresh install (I think).

Thanks,
Richard