From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L6wNi-0000nm-8r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:11:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A312BE053D; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:11:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.152]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77735E053D for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2008 00:11:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so916373yxp.46 for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:11:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Y2DYKStwQuPEWZuwjxWGHeXwNpVfN/cFLLEH90fOpYo=; b=wXMaCoH/siLCCHSgEoTEPoDiyD4Y+YmgErvAiuBZPDqXr6givN2hMRV41W4rXEmNpF GvABi+8xMwUnm6RsK6mG1EgRl/GAvfkiZ3nCJMCaSW2QOkk1zm4e2FPcHcoC9d9drfam GKfAW1YSEf0jC1jKiMlP96LELC/0Vp4xbcvkg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hRZAzYcFJidWSLKHpPQOIOQD5man8rNl8GGzRREB+G82ZqHUFaZNv0tO2NuVj81pB3 VbDPGpPnzbSfPkW/SMcHfH2JK2Q1fkbi9HQtr3OIxAjmHQUwwdU8W2SqiRvz8p8sME/R dnFtR6UPgeER0TyRfFhaW9bqPKulYOTuGiZdo= Received: by 10.64.250.7 with SMTP id x7mr10979668qbh.94.1228090275803; Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:11:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.83.7? (dialup-4.231.83.7.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.83.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 25sm7351465qbw.1.2008.11.30.16.11.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:11:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49332B9E.3000308@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:11:10 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.18) Gecko/20081123 SeaMonkey/1.1.13 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] something is filling up the filesystem References: <1228012513.18119.0.camel@uzzmaster.uzz.local> <200811301537.03952.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811301537.03952.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 73915a80-6d46-4725-a175-0759364809a6 X-Archives-Hash: 2ad00909d84ac643c97cbf7bac21c577 Mick wrote: > On Sunday 30 November 2008, Michele Schiavo wrote: > >> lsof ? >> > > Both find and lsof are good to show what is/has been accessed/changed. > However, you may want to think of setting up logrotate and giving it a max > size for your log file(s) above which it will rotate them. > I'm not sure how fast logrotate checks the size but it sounded like his was getting big pretty fast. It may not would have checked often enough to do him any good. It is a good idea tho. I do my emerge log and messages by size as well. I know when hal or something thinks I have a disc in the DVD drive but don't, it can put a LOT in messages. Good idea tho. Dale :-) :-)