Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

2023-04-05 Thread Giles Orr via talk
On Tue, 4 Apr 2023 at 17:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > (This post is also a test of whether the mailing list is working.) > > GTALUG's server's filesystem filled up: little disk space left. > > I discovered this when I tried to do "apt update; apt full-upgrade". > The second step

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

2023-04-05 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2023-04-04 17:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: GTALUG's server's filesystem filled up: little disk space left. I've had that happen to me in the past where the disk space on a server suddenly runs out. One of the reasons it happened was due to the log file of some program growing

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

2023-04-05 Thread o1bigtenor via talk
On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 12:23 PM Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: > > On 2023-04-04 17:50, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > GTALUG's server's filesystem filled up: little disk space left. > > I've had that happen to me in the past where the disk space on a server > suddenly runs out. One of the

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

2023-04-05 Thread John Sellens via talk
Way back in October 2000, on the SAGE members mailing list, well-known expert Tom Limoncelli said: "It isn't a service if it isn't monitored. If there is no monitoring then you're just running software." --- Tom Limoncelli On Wed, 2023/04/05 02:34:15PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

2023-04-05 Thread BCLUG via talk
(Someone already replied to and addressed this, but since I'd already typed it up, gonna send it anyway.) o1bigtenor via talk wrote on 2023-04-05 12:34: a great way to reduce the problem caused by a runaway var file was to use separate /var and /usr partitions (from / and /home). That

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

2023-04-05 Thread John Sellens via talk
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Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

2023-04-05 Thread Anthony de Boer via talk
On 2023-04-05 15:34, o1bigtenor via talk wrote: On Wed, Apr 5, 2023 at 12:23 PM Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: ... To avoid the problem in the future I always have servers running logwatch. It gives me a daily report of system activity based on various log files. Of particular relevance to the

Re: [GTALUG] war story: gtalug.org's filled up

2023-04-05 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 06:24:22PM -0700, BCLUG via talk wrote: > > (Someone already replied to and addressed this, but since I'd already typed > it up, gonna send it anyway.) > > > o1bigtenor via talk wrote on 2023-04-05 12:34: > > > a great way > > to reduce the problem caused by a runaway