On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:00:13 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: [...] > log files growing at am alarming rate because they are trying to tell > you something. That much was one of my guesses; but I have no idea how to find out what. [...] >> Obviously, I want to cut /var/log with electronic double-bitted >> axes in both hands, to get to my user's GUI again; and to find the >> source of the bloat and correct it. >> >> What should I do first?? > > Find the particular log file that oversized. Look at it and try to > determine *WHY* it is very large and correct the problem that is causing > it to grow. The first thing I tried was Craig White's suggestion of moving xorg.conf out of the way and rebooting -- because that might have been the quickest way back to pursuing this thread on the problem machine. But it failed; reboot only got me the dread "out of range" message from the monitor. I'll go try his find command next -- which I'd never have guessed in a thousand years. I'm very glad to have it. > Do you have logrotate installed? Is it rotating log files periodically > in order to keep their size down? According to rpm -q, yes, 3.7.6-5; do I need to take some sort of closer look at it? I did know there was such a thing, and another of my guesses was that it might be misbehaving; but I have no idea how to check that. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
