From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OlKBD-0000ZI-Di for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:18:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74C5FE0AB7; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4627BE0AB7 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:17:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p4FF04193.dip.t-dialin.net [79.240.65.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 89F714A800C for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:17:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:17:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34-tuxonice-r1; KDE/4.5.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <4C69D8DE.2030803@optonline.net> <8B8B7397-059B-4387-824A-E7697A55327F@floriancrouzat.net> <4C6A6B09.4060400@optonline.net> In-Reply-To: <4C6A6B09.4060400@optonline.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008171317.44870.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: ef745d85-9c93-4678-93f7-5e536654cfff X-Archives-Hash: 3f866e1f6a1d5662d9e51e2e4156747e dhk writes: > I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had this > kernel for almost four months. Shouldn't the log's be rotated and > purged? Depends on your system logger. Metalog does this automatically, but for others you probably have to install logrotate. Wonko