On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:40:14PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Okay, this is my weirdest Linux problem yet. > > Leaving the system unattended for a few hours, the / partition on my > hard drive mysteriously fills up. When I open up KDiskfree, the > partition in question shows as 100% used (red line all the way across.) > > This has happened twice now. The first time was after I went to bed > last night. When I got up this morning, the drive was full. Then, it > happened again while we were out doing Christmas dinner and movies. We > left around 11:30 this morning, and when we returned just about a half > hour ago, it was full again. Both times, I was able to clear it by > logging out and back in again. > > I'm suspecting that the culprit is ipmasq. I noticed that when I'm > logged in to any text console, I occasionally get various firewall > status lines, such as: > > IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=68.113.22.3 DST=68.111.54.95 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 > TTL=64 ID=0 DF PROTO=TCP SP >
That is going into your /var/log/(syslog|messages|kern.log). du --max-depth=0 on /var/log and on /tmp or du --max-depth=1 on / to see where the data is hiding. Since it clears when you log out (reboot?) its probably a temp file. If only logout then I would guess something related to you window manager or session. > I'm guessing that this stuff is also going into some sort of temporary > log file, which gets rather full after a few hours. What can I do to > stop this? At the very least, I would like to set things up so ipmasq > either creates no log file, or limits the size of the file to something > reasonable. I'd also like to set it so those messages don't come up on > the screen as well, as it gets rather annoying when I'm working from a > console. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
