On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:49:32 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote: > Beartooth wrote: [....] >> What could be causing this, and what do i do about it?? > > Probably something's gone wrong and is logging the same message over and > over again. > > Quick way to find it: > > cd /var/log > > ls -ltrh > > This list all files with the newest file last (your log file was > probably the last thing written), and with human readable file sizes. > You'll probably see one enormous file. If you don't see it then try the > same thing down a directory level > > ls -ltrh */* > > Once you've found the offending file do tail -500 [whatever file name] > to see the last messages written to it, it's probably going to be the > same thing over and over again. > > Once you know what the message is you can look to fixing it. You can > also delete the offending file so your machine can start working again. > > Hope this helps As you'll've likely seen by now, I got a bit turned around when suddenly startx no longer worked even for root, and whomped the bloated file with Craig White's big hammer, before somebody gave me a better way than I knew to look at it from the CLI. So I'm back on the #1 machine, using the whole GUI as user, able to c&p from gnome-terminal to Pan; but the bloat is gone. I *think* that means the info those commands'd've gotten is gone, too. At any rate, ls -ltrh found nothing bigger than about 300K. ls -ltrh */* found somewhat bigger ones, but nothing remotely near so horrendous as to run into gigabytes. [root@Hbsk2 log]# ls -ltrh */* -rw-r--r-- 1 privoxy privoxy 0 2008-09-02 08:34 privoxy/logfile -r-------- 1 root root 5.1M 2008-09-17 16:23 audit/audit.log.3 -r-------- 1 root root 5.1M 2008-09-18 00:21 audit/audit.log.2 -r-------- 1 root root 5.1M 2008-09-18 08:19 audit/audit.log.1 -rw------- 1 root lp 345 2008-09-19 17:31 cups/page_log-20080920 [....] -rw------- 1 root root 728 2008-10-27 11:51 mail/statistics -rw------- 1 root root 3.3M 2008-10-27 12:01 audit/audit.log samba/old: total 0 [root@Hbsk2 log]# -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
