Stefan, > Note that this risks will fill your ram&swap with logs, next time some > problem shows up causing infinitely repeated log entries. For this > reason I prefer to install busybox-syslogd: it's much smaller than > rsyslogd, keeps the logs in memory (like your tmpfs) but only keeps the > last few KBs of it, so there's no risk of overflowing.
Nice hint ! Thanks! However, i've got no log daemon at all right now, and the only logs left are lastlog, X log, dmesg and consolekit. Of these, as i believe, only dmesg could potentially be flooded; but IIRR the kernel cuts repetitions (which occur regularly with flakey hardware) automaticly. At least i saw something like 'last message repeated xyz times' in the past. It's actually an interesting question how the system behaves in the worst crisis (and with no swap) - it makes me think to trigger this purposely some day :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
