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From: "Simon Griffiths" <simon.g@claycrossbs.co.uk>
To: "Jon Molin" <jon.molin@resfeber.se>
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Subject: RE: /var/log/messages fills up
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:30:24 +0100
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Hi,

> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: /var/log/messages fills up
> Hello list,
>
[snip]
> and apperently writing this about 1000 times/sec so the file filled the
> fs (i know i should have had a /var slice) and therefor it started
> adding that to the log as well so i had a 2.9 G large messagefile.
>
> Is there anyway to avoid this? One way could be to make a cronjob that
> monitors the log but there should be better way, or?
>

Yea, you could use /etc/newsyslog.conf to configure how big you want the the
file to grow to and how many times to rotate the file.  This would give a
performance hit though when dealing with situation like this but at least
you should be able to limit the damage.

See newsyslog(8) for a full description of howto configure this system.

>
> /jon

HTH,

Si.


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