> If anyone is running the des-solnet daemon from non-us, be aware that you > should stop and restart it daily or you might find your disk space being > eaten up. > > The problem is that it rolls the logs without stopping the program. The > program continues writing to the rolled logfile UNTIL the housekeeping > daemon gzips the log file after rolling through to the second day. gzip > will delete the old logfile but des-solnet still has the file open and is > writing to it. This will result in the eventual usage of all available > space in /var/log while an ls will show no file taking up the obviously > used space. Stopping des-solnet should result in the file being closed and > the file emilinated freeing up the mystery space. > > Just a heads-up for admins of systems that are left unattended.
Thanks for the warning. For the latest version, des-solnet_1.03-4, I have totally rewritten the lwatch program, so the log files now rotate properly. I think it's still in Incoming on os.inf.tu-dresden.de (or you can grab it from my ftp server). Sorry if I caused you some grief. Cheers, - Jim
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