On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:12:21 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> One of my F9 machines -- actually my #1 main machine -- started having
> display problems.
[....]
> 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.
Having eventually -- thanks to the invaluable help here --
discovered that the culprit was /var/log/messages-20081026, with the
whole 54GB; having failed to understand the problem, and finally deleted
it just to get back, I'm now on the #1 machine again, and I see :
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[root@Hbsk2 btth]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
72G 18G 51G 26% /
/dev/sda1 190M 25M 156M 14% /boot
tmpfs 1.5G 48K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 75G 15G 61G 20% /media/System
[root@Hbsk2 btth]#
===== ===== ===== =====
All I could tell, from my sadly ineffectual attempts to skim the
bad file without GUI means, was that it kept saying something about some
USB device, and also that some device couldn't do fax. (I never use fax.)
I'm very sorry not to have a better explanation of what happened,
especially inasmuch as I'm also worried. Unless it was some inadvertent
command, blamable on my arthritic eyeballs and trifocal fingers, and thus
a fluke, it might happen again.
I think logrotate must be working, because both the file for the
25th and the 27th were reported nonexistent. In fact, I'm not at all sure
it was me that deleted the bad one; maybe logrotate did it.
I took a look :
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[root@Hbsk2 btth]# file /var/log/messages-20081027
/var/log/messages-20081027: ERROR: cannot open `/var/log/
messages-20081027' (No such file or directory)
[root@Hbsk2 btth]# file /var/log/messages-20081026
/var/log/messages-20081026: empty
[root@Hbsk2 btth]# file /var/log/messages-20081025
/var/log/messages-20081025: ERROR: cannot open `/var/log/
messages-20081025' (No such file or directory)
[root@Hbsk2 btth]#
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Does that tell anyone anything more than it does me? Does it look
like, or at least compatible with, logrotate?
I suppose I should take a look at root's mail. What should I look
there for? (I think I do have logwatch running on this machine.)
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 2.00, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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