Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 14:48:55 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serious maintenance bug in 2.2.2-R Message-ID: <199707042148.OAA23561@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jul 1997 14:49:21 MDT." <3.0.1.32.19970704144921.008e1c40@mail.lariat.org>
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>Upgraded a system to 2.2.2-R not long ago, and just discovered that it was >running out of disk space. Why? Because the new /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, >and /etc/monthly no longer cleaned up or rotated the log files! They were >growing and growing, and began overflowing the disk on this busy system, >causing all manner of havoc. Worse still, the nightly backups that >normally went to our backup catching machine were overflowing ITS disk, >leaving us vulnerable to data loss. > >I don't know whether this problem occurs exclusively on upgrades, but it's >a ticking time bomb that could cause major problems. Does 2.2.2-R have any >provisions to rotate and clean up log files? For now, I've added code from >2.1.0-R to daily.local, weekly.local, and monthly.local to get things back >under control. This is handled by "newsyslog". See /etc/newsyslog.conf and the associated manual pages. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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