Package: rsyslog Version: 3.18.6-2 Severity: important thanks for maintaining rsyslog!
i unfortunately noticed that rsyslog can fill up a disk when a process goes haywire and sends many identical log messages over the course of a several seconds. sysklogd handles such situations by only logging identical lines once every so often, and producing a count of how many times it is repeated: Jan 14 06:26:24 FOOSERVER diskless114 ldm[20184]: sigwaitinfo returned an error Jan 14 06:26:29 FOOSERVER last message repeated 378 times while that doesn't entirely solve the problem, it can make the difference between a few GB vs. a few MB log files. i debated setting this to serious, as it can result in data loss (missed logs) or a DoS when this happens. live well, vagrant -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages rsyslog depends on: ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages rsyslog recommends: ii logrotate 3.7.1-5 Log rotation utility Versions of packages rsyslog suggests: pn rsyslog-doc <none> (no description available) pn rsyslog-mysql | rsyslog-pgsql <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
