On Saturday 01 December 2001 19:04, you wrote: > > > to have filled up your root partition. All the better to have /var off by > > itself on another partitiion somewhere. Normally, of course, that > > shouldn't happen; something must have caused a runaway log. For 'regular' > > workstations those logs should be only a few megs apiece. > Ummm, actually, if you don't have a lot of space on your hd, the log files can use up a considerable amount of the free percentage if you don't edit your /etc/logrotate.conf so that it doesn't keep a whole month's worth of logs. Logs can become massive affairs if you are doing a lot of configuration (and misconfiguration) of your system. I recommend limiting the logs by changing all references in /etc/logrotate.conf that say "monthly" to "weekly" and all "weekly" references to "daily". Also, "rotate 4" should be changed to "rotate 1". Otherwise, one of these days you may lock up because the partiton that /var is on is out of space--I speak from experience. This isn't the end of the world, you can reboot to level 3 and then use a text editor to delete the log files, but it is annoying.
eryl
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