Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 12:19:57 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp.log file gets too big! Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980210121659.1357A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <01BD356E.5D6C5F60@fast1>
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On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Frank Griffith wrote:
> 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?
Aside from trimming your debug logging to something less chattier, you
can also check out newsyslog(8), and its config file /etc/newsyslog.conf.
Add an entry in there for your ppp.log file.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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