On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:15:06 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Björn Persson wrote: >> >> I'd imagine that the messages about the printer have stopped, and the >> ones about the keyboard, the mouse and the hub continue. (There's a USB >> hub inside the KVM switch.) Every time you switch to another machine to >> look for new messages, you cause more messages. >> >> Those messages aren't errors and you don't need to worry about them as >> long as the log doesn't grow out of control again. It's quite possible >> that most of those 54 GB was something completely different that hasn't >> resurfaced yet. I'd recommend doing "ls -l /var/log/messages*" now and >> then to keep an eye on it, and investigate further if it grows to many >> megabytes. >> >> Björn Persson >> > I have not been really been following this thread, but I do remember > something about having to go and read root's messages. I got the > impression that root's mail never gets read. If all root's mail is > building up in his mail box, and it never gets cleaned out, it is > probably a significant cause of the problem as well. (I wounder how many > "running out of disk space" messages root has...) Part of the fix should > probably include setting up an alias so root's mail go to a normal user. > If it is not going to be read at all, then maybe forward it to > /dev/null. :) Well, it's true, alas!, that I hardly ever think to read root's mail; otoh, wouldn't it show up in baobab if root's mail were getting bloated? That's how the bloat in /var/log/messages showed up. I'm online too much as it is; and most logs are nearly gibberish to me. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2.0 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
