Hi Jack,
> 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!
Are you saying 11GB?? Or do you mean 11MB? That sounds m
Look at the logrotate system. It can, and should, be set to rotate all
logs include the message file either on a set schedule or when the logs
exceed a certain size. If it is not happening then logrotate is not
running or is experiencing an error. If it is not running, make sure it
is set to
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Greg Wright wrote:
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>
> FWIW it may be worth setting a quota, or making /var in its own
Setting a quota is what I recommend too. But isn't there a file
size cap on /var/log/messages* in any case? If not, there SHOULD
be. The system should do a little 'shunting' process
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On 19/01/01 at 9:32 jack wallen, jr wrote:
>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 mes
the company is sending me a new drive. the drive has a windows partition
that's okay...so i can still use it for diablo II. ;-)
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Hi Jack ;^)
>
> Well I'd hope whoever wrote the IDE drivers wouldn't let it try to write
> beyond the physical media r
Hi Jack ;^)
Well I'd hope whoever wrote the IDE drivers wouldn't let it try to write
beyond the physical media regardless of the file size. That said, I've
got a laptop drive that exibits similar behavior, usually only when
swapping heavily. I suspect there are some bad blocks that are getting
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
