On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 15:50 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > 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 : > > ===== ===== ===== ===== > [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 : > > ===== ===== ===== ===== > [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]# > ===== ===== ===== ===== > > 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.) ---- probably because you're out of space to create them Just do this at command line (as root) # > /var/log/messages that will completely empty it out (the # sign signifies root and prevents e-mail from thinking it is part of a reply. Don't type the # sign) Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
