Andre Koopal wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:02:21PM +0200, DaB. wrote:
>> today we have run a little bit short of disc-space on the /home-partition. I
>> searched for files with more than 500MB, hoping to find some old log-files
>> that I could delete before I tell you to clean-up. What I found was
>> upsetting: The biggest log-file I found was 74GB(!) big and several others
>> were also dozen of GB big. I deleted them all (a list can be found at [1]).
>> 
>> Guys, what is so hard to check from time to time a big a logfile is and
>> truncate it? Do I really have to speed-up the re-installation of the quota-
>> system so that you all have 256MB per default and angry mails are send if you
>> use more?
> 
> Better, just setup logrotation, if you just rotate each day and keep a week
> of logs (or maybe more, depending on what it is), it won't grow out of hand.

Did you read <https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/MNT-1252>? Your reply makes
it seem as though you did not. Log rotation isn't needed here; a ban on the
use of interwiki.py is what's needed here. Oy vey.

MZMcBride



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