Re: [Sks-devel] Excessive use of /var/lib/sks/DB/log.*

2019-02-09 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2019-02-08 16:48:16 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Hey dkg! hi Gunnar! :) > With hindsight, that was my mistake - When I rebuilt my server > about a month ago (after a DB corruption), I decided to keep my > installation and just delete /var/lib/sks/DB/*, rebuilding from > dumps. Of course, I

Re: [Sks-devel] Excessive use of /var/lib/sks/DB/log.*

2019-02-08 Thread John Zaitseff
Hi, all, > In fact... I think that The Debian Way™ would be to have [the > DB_CONFIG file] in /etc/sks, with a message on top clearly stating > it should be linked from /var/lib/sks/DB (as we Debian people are > often too lazy to look up configuration details in our software > and expect

Re: [Sks-devel] Excessive use of /var/lib/sks/DB/log.*

2019-02-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hey dkg! > If you're using a debian system, please compare > /usr/share/doc/sks/sampleConfig/DB_CONFIG with > /var/lib/sks/DB/DB_CONFIG -- if your files differ, i'd be happy to help > you figure out whether the problematic behavior you're seeing could be > attributable to those differences. > >

Re: [Sks-devel] Excessive use of /var/lib/sks/DB/log.*

2019-02-08 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Wed 2019-02-06 20:27:28 -0800, Todd Fleisher wrote: > This sounds like you are missing the recommended DB_CONFIG values to > prevent your server from holding into those log files when an issue is > encountered. As I recall, the fix is to start over from scratch and > rebuild after first putting

Re: [Sks-devel] Excessive use of /var/lib/sks/DB/log.*

2019-02-06 Thread Todd Fleisher
This sounds like you are missing the recommended DB_CONFIG values to prevent your server from holding into those log files when an issue is encountered. As I recall, the fix is to start over from scratch and rebuild after first putting that file in place. It is covered in the list archives and

[Sks-devel] Excessive use of /var/lib/sks/DB/log.*

2019-02-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Hello, Since a couple of days ago, I have noticed an incredible growth in space usage (so much it has killed my server twice, hitting partition limits). Since February 3rd, I have over 4000 files with binary-only contents (could find no meaningful information in them) called /var/lib/sks/DB/log.