Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:58:07 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Fengping Li <fli@post.its.mcw.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why /var/log/mgetty.cuaa1 takes 11G Message-ID: <3AA3B78F.D4C6DFAB@iowna.com> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1010305094415.29709A-100000@post.its.mcw.edu>
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Fengping Li wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I have FreeBSD 4.0 release running on a > 16GB hard disk but I found a file > /var/log/mgetty.cuaa1 takes me > 11GB !!!! > > Ideas or suggestions? Any combination of the below will help: 1. Reduce the logging level of mgetty so it dosen't write so much. 2. Check to make sure it's not logging errors, if it is: correct them. 3. Configure newsyslog to rotate that log periodically and delete old logs after a certain amount of time. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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