You could put /var/log in its own partition. That way when it's full it doesn't mess up anything else.
Gnome gives an alert when a drive is nearly full (at least it does on my dad's Ubuntu machine). I'm not sure what the name of the daemon is, though. -Rob On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:56:44PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these > grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the > filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must remove these > two > files and reboot. The bootup check will remove an inode or so and things will > play. > > I would like some daemon to monitor either selected log files or the > available > space and alert before this gets out of hand. At this point, automatic > execution of a script or manual deletion can be done before its "too late." > > Any ideas? > > (Running Sid) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
