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To: Fengping Li <fli@post.its.mcw.edu>
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Subject: Re: Why /var/log/mgetty.cuaa1 takes 11G
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Fengping Li wrote:
> 
> Dear friends,
> 
> I have FreeBSD 4.0 release running on a
> 16GB hard disk but I found a file
> /var/log/mgetty.cuaa1 takes me
> 11GB !!!!
> 
> Ideas or suggestions?

Any combination of the below will help:

1. Reduce the logging level of mgetty so it dosen't write so much.
2. Check to make sure it's not logging errors, if it is: correct them.
3. Configure newsyslog to rotate that log periodically and delete old
logs after a certain amount of time.

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