Re: overly large /var/log/messages

[Leonard den Ottolander]

                Hi Jack,

>  when i took a look at messages i
> discovered it had grown to over 11 gigs (don't ask me how) and i couldn't read
> then end of the file (obviously). someone had hit me 5 times per second for
> nearly 12 hours!

 Are you saying 11GB?? Or do you mean 11MB? That sounds more reasonable (5 t/s 
* 60 s/m * 60 m/h * 12 h * 50 chars/log line ~ 10MB).
 You could setup /var as a different partition.

                                        Bye,

                                        Leonard.




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