On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:32 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > Is there some way to find out what makes that message file so big > -- i.e., why the machine was losing its mind? I can't hope to read 54 > gigs in my lifetime ...
"tail -n 1000 /var/log/messages" will show the last 1000 lines of the log. If one message is repeating over and over (as Chris pointed out), it should be pretty obvious. Jonathan
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