Just so you understand, it was not interchange that was zipping the logs,
but logrotate. 'man logrotate' for details, but you have plenty control
over how big the let the files become, how man copies to keep, etc.
charles
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Ben Ocean wrote:
> Hi;
> Thank you everybody that gave me good advice. Apparently, closing the port
> for *interchange* caused that program to log errors as it tried to access
> the port (apparently quite frequently), then it gzipped the logs and put
> them in other logs, so many logs that when I erased the file it took about
> ONE HOUR of CPU time!! Good grief!! No wonder slocate went berserk every
> time it tried to do it's thing. Once that crap was clear, updatedb set
> everything back to normal. Yay! Thanks again :))
> BenO
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