I too had a similar problem. I printed a few pdfs today and a few hours later I ran out of diskspace. I looked through the hard drive with the analyzer and found a 35.6gb file in /var/log/cupsd/error_log
Bug #64548 also had a fairly large log. I believe the logs do rotate but on a time basis but not size. Having logs rotate with size could be a security issue though, if you have done something you don't want logged, you could cause the logs to be flooded with something else until its removed from the logs, but it would be less of a security issue than harddrives being flooded. The logs directory shouldn't be bigger than a few 100 mb (mines 7mb without the 35gb log). The alternative is to look at partitioning off the log directory, but its a bit of a pain for a desktop system. Maybe if ZFS gets ported to Linux properly it would be easy to add a partition and quota to the log directory. -- log growing too big, syslogd freezes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/71870 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
