Hi,
I installed PMFirewall recently and have been getting a ton of the same
message in my syslog and messages files - they are "deny" messages, but of my
own static IP address, so I must have something set up wrong.
As a consequence, these files have been getting huge, and have caused me some
I'm not in front of my computer at home but if I am not mistaken
you can set a rule to reject traffic from your IP, but I'll have
to look at my firewall at home to see how the syntax will go.
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philomena [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on
Mon, 13 Nov 2000 08:26:29 +
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, philomena wrote:
I will subscribe to that list, but my question is not really a
PMFirewall question - its about controlling the size of the system log
files - since I saw a syslog.gz , which I know I didn't create, I am
assuming there is some system utility that compressed
Title: RE: [newbie] size of log files
This also begs the question, is there a file or files that one should periodically clear out to prevent filling up a disk with garbage? I have found nothing in my reading that says it is necessary, but just maybe I missed it.
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Hi Paul,
That was it - I did a 'man logrotate' and got tons of info - the files can be
controled based on timing as well as size - very neat.
Thanks for the pointer,
philomena
On Monday 13 November 2000 08:18 pm, you wrote:
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, philomena wrote:
I will subscribe to that
