debian@beaglebone:~$ ls -lh /var/log
total 76M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 16 18:49 ConsoleKit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  15K Jan 16 18:49 Xorg.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  27K Jan 16 19:45 alternatives.log
drwxr-x--- 2 root adm  4.0K Jan 16 18:49 apache2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 16 18:49 apt
-rw-r----- 1 root adm  2.4K Jan 22 06:38 auth.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  60K Jan 16 18:48 bootstrap.log
-rw------- 1 root utmp    0 Jan 16 18:43 btmp
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   27K Jan 22 06:30 daemon.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   25M Jan 22 06:39 debug
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   27K Jan 16 18:49 dmesg
-rw-r----- 1 root adm    31 Jan 16 18:45 dmesg.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 456K Jan 22 06:34 dpkg.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24K Jan 16 19:12 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  781 Jan 16 19:07 fontconfig.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 16 18:45 fsck
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   25M Jan 22 06:39 kern.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 286K Jan 22 06:31 lastlog
drwx--x--x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 16 18:49 lightdm
-rw-r----- 1 root adm     0 Jan 16 18:49 lpr.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm     0 Jan 16 18:49 mail.err
-rw-r----- 1 root adm     0 Jan 16 18:49 mail.info
-rw-r----- 1 root adm     0 Jan 16 18:49 mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 root adm     0 Jan 16 18:49 mail.warn
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   35K Jan 16 18:50 messages
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 16 18:49 news
-rw-r----- 1 root adm   25M Jan 22 06:39 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 root adm     0 Jan 16 18:49 user.log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Jan 16 18:50 wicd
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 3.4K Jan 22 06:36 wtmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  237 Jan 16 19:11 wvdialconf.log


debug grows by a meg every 30 seconds or so....

I also think I know where the problem is coming from:  by looking at iotop 
trace the rsyslog active only when USB cable is plugged in ( to PC )

On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 9:39:49 PM UTC-8, RobertCNelson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:14 PM,  
> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Yes, 
> > 
> > those 3 seem to grow very fast: 
> > kern.log 
> > syslog 
> > debug 
> > 
> > I installed iotop and it was showing rsyslog running very often, writing 
> > bunch of data to the card. 
> > 
> > what is interesting is that after I shut down LXDE they don't seem to 
> grow 
> > much and rsyslod doesn't show up in iotop anymore.....  I have no 
> working 
> > theory, except that I found this in kern.log: 
> > 
> > Jan 16 18:56:39 beaglebone kernel: [    1.076132] bone-capemgr 
> > bone_capemgr.9: slot #5: BB-BONELT-HDMI conflict P8.45 
> (#1:BB-BONE-LCD7-01) 
> > Jan 16 18:56:39 beaglebone kernel: [    1.122583] bone-capemgr 
> > bone_capemgr.9: slot #6: BB-BONELT-HDMIN conflict P8.45 
> (#1:BB-BONE-LCD7-01) 
> > 
> > have no idea if this has anything to do with anything..... 
>
> That's fine.. The hdmi (audio) and hdmi (no audio) got denied loading 
> as you have the lcd7 plugged in and that pin wasn't available.. (it's 
> an error condition, just not useful for obvious reasons. ;) ..) 
>
> > To answer the second part of your question: 
> > no, it doesn't roll's over safely..... I left the board powered 
> overnight ( 
> > accidentally ) and it was at 100% rootfs usage this morning.... 
>
> yeah, that's no good, can you dump: 
>
> ls -lh /var/log/ 
>
> Then i'll fix that.. 
>
> Regards, 
>
> -- 
> Robert Nelson 
> http://www.rcn-ee.com/ 
>

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