[gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

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.

Thanks, Allan

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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[John Jolet]

emerge logrotate....it'll let you safely rotate various log files.
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 15:12, 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.
>
> Thanks, Allan

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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[Neil Bothwick]

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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.


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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[Richard Fish]

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.
>  
>

For starters:

emerge logrotate
man logrotate
vi /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng

Also, if there is a particular message that is filling up your log, you 
can filter that out in /etc/syslog.d/syslog-ng.conf.  For example:

# The eth reset messages also bug me...
filter not_eth_reset {
        not(match("PHY reset until link up"));
};
...
log { source(src); filter(not_nmbd); filter(not_eth_reset); 
destination(messages); };
...

HTH
-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[Mark Shields]

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Sounds to me like you don't have logrotate installed or the install is
corrupt. If emerge --search ^logrotate$ shows it's installed, I would
re-emerge it.

On 10/25/05, Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar@gmail.com> 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.
>
> Thanks, Allan
>
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[Rumen Yotov]

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On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:12 -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.
> 
> Thanks, Allan
> 
Hi,
Some people prefer the config from "hardened" project - it logs to more
files.
HTH.Rumen

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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[Heinz Sporn]

Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar:
> 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.

I'm using sysklogd myself and with that comes a syslog.cron script
in /etc/cron.daily that rotates it's logfiles. Shouldn't there be a
similar thing in syslog-ng? If not you could always use logrotate.

> 
> Thanks, Allan
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[W.Kenworthy]

syslog-ng does.  


bunyip ~ # ls /etc/logrotate.d
apache2  hibernate-script  mysql  scrollkeeper  syslog-ng

bunyip ~ # qpkg -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng
app-admin/syslog-ng *
bunyip ~ #

so you just need to check the file is present, install logrotate and sit
back and watch it happen.

BillK


On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 07:58 +0200, Heinz Sporn wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar:
> > 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.
> 
> I'm using sysklogd myself and with that comes a syslog.cron script
> in /etc/cron.daily that rotates it's logfiles. Shouldn't there be a
> similar thing in syslog-ng? If not you could always use logrotate.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks, Allan
> > 
> -- 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> 
> Heinz Sporn
> 
> SPORN it-freelancing
> 
> Mobile:  ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07
> Email:   heinz.sporn@sporn-it.com
>          heinz.sporn@utanet.at
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>          A-4540 Bad Hall
>          Austria / Europe
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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[Allan Spagnol Comar]

Thank you all , sorry to take so long to answer and the logrotate
really had worked for me.
Thanks again.

On 10/27/05, W.Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au> wrote:
> syslog-ng does.
>
>
> bunyip ~ # ls /etc/logrotate.d
> apache2  hibernate-script  mysql  scrollkeeper  syslog-ng
>
> bunyip ~ # qpkg -f /etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng
> app-admin/syslog-ng *
> bunyip ~ #
>
> so you just need to check the file is present, install logrotate and sit
> back and watch it happen.
>
> BillK
>
>
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 07:58 +0200, Heinz Sporn wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 25.10.2005, 17:12 -0300 schrieb Allan Spagnol Comar:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I'm using sysklogd myself and with that comes a syslog.cron script
> > in /etc/cron.daily that rotates it's logfiles. Shouldn't there be a
> > similar thing in syslog-ng? If not you could always use logrotate.
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks, Allan
> > >
> > --
> > Mit freundlichen Grüßen
> >
> > Heinz Sporn
> >
> > SPORN it-freelancing
> >
> > Mobile:  ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07
> > Email:   heinz.sporn@sporn-it.com
> >          heinz.sporn@utanet.at
> > Website: http://www.sporn-it.com
> > Snail:   Steyrer Str. 20
> >          A-4540 Bad Hall
> >          Austria / Europe
> >
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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[z3rosix]

Hello,

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:12:30PM -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.
> 
> Thanks, Allan

try to use logrotate -> app-admin/logrotate
and make it an cronjob every night or every week.
it will rotate and compress your old logfiles


greetz

alex

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Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

[Tomas Jankovic]

Hi Allan,

use logrotate

example - http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_use_cron#Logrotate

Tomas

2005/10/25, Allan Spagnol Comar <allan.comar@gmail.com>:
> 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.
>
> Thanks, Allan
>
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