overly large /var/log/messages

[jack wallen, jr]

my hard drive is failing (running Red Hat 7.0) and last night i discovered
it making the insidious 'clicking sound' only when trying to log to
/var/log/messages or /var/log/secure.  when i took a look at messages i
discovered it had grown to over 11 gigs (don't ask me how) and i couldn't
read then end of the file (obviously). someone had hit me 5 times per
second for nearly 12 hours! i'm assuming this might have to do with the
ramen worm.  anyway...i simply removed both messages and secure and
'touched' new files in their places.

could this physical error be due to the oversized file (and the attempts
to write to it)?

-- 
Jack Wallen, Jr



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