> Now I've quickly jumped into the server and noticed the following:-
>
> /root - dead.letter is 41Mb
> /var/log/messages - 25Mb < --- growing as I type this
> /var/log/xferlog - 25Mb < ----- growing as I type this
>
> I need to know before the server goes tits up how do I kill the logs and
get
> them back to what they were before portsentry started. I've renamed the
file
> portsentry to portsentry.old for now to see if that stops the quick
> generation of log files and dead.letter. Can I delete dead/letter from
/root
If things are really hairy you can kill the syslogger (syslogd), and that
will stop all logging.
Kevin
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