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From: Jon Molin <jon.molin@resfeber.se>
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To: Simon Griffiths <simon.g@claycrossbs.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: /var/log/messages fills up
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Thanks! 

That what was i was looking for, had totaly missed that file and
searching on messages was pretty hopless.

/jon


Simon Griffiths wrote:
> 
> 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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