Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,25.Nov.08, 18:58:19, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... so... what is xconsole? A very useful app if you can get it to work. It puts a small window on your display that

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 12:16, Paul Cartwright a écrit : In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root owned process on a user's display, and once you get it going, the next Debian release breaks your tweak, at least in my experience. great, thanks! at least I found out

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 25 2008, s. keeling wrote:  so... what is xconsole? A very useful app if you can get it to work.  It puts a small window on your display that scrolls /var/log/messages constantly in real time.  It's very nice if you're changing something and want to know the immediate effect

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:12:20 +0200 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue,25.Nov.08, 18:58:19, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... so... what is xconsole? A very

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Wagner
* s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26.11.2008 Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 99.999% of the lines were comments.. except for this: # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, #$ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] *.=notice;*.=warn

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: so... what is xconsole? A very useful app if you can get it to work. It puts a small window on your display that scrolls /var/log/messages

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Michael Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] 26.11.2008 Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: so... what is xconsole? In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root owned process on a user's display, and once you get it going, the next Debian

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-25 Thread s. keeling
Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed November 19 2008, s. keeling wrote:  I did a CTRL-ALT-F9 earlier that day, thinking I was switching to my OTHER user logged in, and those lines were on the screen, instead of the gdm login syslogd may be configured to send messages to that

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-25 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... so... what is xconsole? A very useful app if you can get it to work. It puts a small window on your display that scrolls /var/log/messages constantly in real time. It's

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-19 Thread s. keeling
Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I did a CTRL-ALT-F9 earlier that day, thinking I was switching to my OTHER user logged in, and those lines were on the screen, instead of the gdm login syslogd may be configured to send messages to that pty also. It's a common prctice and probably not

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 19 2008, s. keeling wrote:  I did a CTRL-ALT-F9 earlier that day, thinking I was switching to my OTHER user logged in, and those lines were on the screen, instead of the gdm login syslogd may be configured to send messages to that pty also.  It's a common prctice and

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 18 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: First, tail -f /var/log/messages to see exactly what all the new log entries are.  That should point you towards the offender. I rebooted, and it stopped doing it. I went back into messages.0 , which was the LARGE file, and found lots, and lots, and

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 06:03, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 18 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: First, tail -f /var/log/messages to see exactly what all the new log entries are. That should point you towards the offender. I rebooted, and it stopped doing it. I went back into messages.0 , which was

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-18 Thread Clifford W. Hansen
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 14:03:23 Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 18 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: First, tail -f /var/log/messages to see exactly what all the new log entries are.  That should point you towards the offender. I rebooted, and it stopped doing it. I went back into

/var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
I don't know what changed, but I think an update must have changed a parameter or something. there are a bunch of log files that are now growing lots faster * bigger than they were 2 days ago: messages, kern.log, daemon.log, syslog. see: :/var/log# ls -l mess* -rw-r- 1 root adm 103306889

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/17/08 21:05, Paul Cartwright wrote: I don't know what changed, but I think an update must have changed a parameter or something. there are a bunch of log files that are now growing lots faster * bigger than they were 2 days ago: messages, kern.log, daemon.log, syslog. see: :/var/log# ls