Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 22:35:02 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ppp.log file gets too big! Message-ID: <199802092235.WAA00154@awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 15:21:15 CST." <01BD356E.5D6C5F60@fast1>
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> I have FreeBSD 2.2.5 running on a 486-66 system. The system
> uses two (2) 325 meg hard drives.
>
> I am using the FreeBSD machine as a gateway to the Internet
> for some Windows 95 machines. Whenever I download a
> bunch of files the system halts because the /var directory
> gets overloaded. I look into the file system and find this huge
> file ppp.log. It seems to be the problem, so I rm it. But then
> the system reports errors when running ppp even after I reboot.
>
> How can I keep this ppp.log file from getting too big? or How can I
> effectively clean it up?
Change the `set log' line in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to read something like:
set log phase link
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