From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUep2-0006c8-Ad for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:31:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9Q6OGUv018402; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:24:16 GMT Received: from doppler.zen.co.uk (doppler.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.27]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9Q67H27010376 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:07:17 GMT Received: from [212.23.3.140] (helo=pythagoras.zen.co.uk) by doppler.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EUYgd-0008Td-T2 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:58:35 +0000 Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by pythagoras.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EUYgd-0000Vt-NI for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:58:35 +0000 Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6B8D1406260 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 00:58:32 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:00:13 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size Message-ID: <20051026010013.567c4025@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <1cc2dc830510251312m3af12174jea7b36b9b7dbaf9b@mail.gmail.com> References: <1cc2dc830510251312m3af12174jea7b36b9b7dbaf9b@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.99-rc3 (GTK+ 2.8.6; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_cHUdFLPC7bpl_HPfbzbtO7A; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Pythagoras-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 2aba0c10-c2ac-4b2a-9348-e0bd43677b4c X-Archives-Hash: 3c051f3ccc84e08ce0e2d9c1060f5848 --Sig_cHUdFLPC7bpl_HPfbzbtO7A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:12:30 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got > stucked.... I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size > and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default > syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. emerge logrotate Without log rotation, your logfiles will just keep growing. There is also the possibility that some process has run amok and is filling your log file with repeated messages. --=20 Neil Bothwick What do you get if you cross an agnostic, an insomniac and adyslexic? Someone who lies awake at night wondering if there really is a dog. --Sig_cHUdFLPC7bpl_HPfbzbtO7A Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDXscNum4al0N1GQMRAmOGAJ9VPiGtdEOL/yfwN7upXbYlr2tO7QCfb7fs thRzLDzo7TVwn2l8LMXUKGA= =kLQl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_cHUdFLPC7bpl_HPfbzbtO7A-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list