Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:55:26 +0200 From: Jon Molin <jon.molin@resfeber.se> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /var/log/messages fills up Message-ID: <3B4AC2FE.7D58AD03@resfeber.se>
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Hello list, This morning when i came to my work my workstation was in a horrble state, there where netscape popups complaining on the lack of space. What had happend was, a program had gone crazy and spawned off resulting in: Jul 9 21:24:57 jmo /kernel: file: table is full Jul 9 21:24:57 jmo syslogd: /var/run/utmp: Too many open files in system Jul 9 21:24:57 jmo last message repeated 3 times 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? /jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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