Re: [arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM

2012-07-04 Thread Brock York
On the arch wiki it tells how to setup journald with syslog https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Systemd_Journal and Sébastien Leblanc it also tells you how to enable syslog-ng in systemd on the link above it's systemctl enable syslog-ng.service Hope this helps abit :)

Re: [arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM

2012-07-04 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Alexandre Isoard wrote: > > Read man pages of systemd. This will avoid a lot of struggling. > > From "man 8 systemd-journald": > >> By default the journal stores log data in /run/log/journal/. Since >> /run/ is volatile log data is lost at reboot. To make the data >

Re: [arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM

2012-07-04 Thread Alexandre Isoard
Read man pages of systemd. This will avoid a lot of struggling. >From "man 8 systemd-journald": > By default the journal stores log data in /run/log/journal/. Since > /run/ is volatile log data is lost at reboot. To make the data > persistent it is sufficient to create /var/log/journal/ where > s

Re: [arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM

2012-07-03 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Jul 3, 2012 3:41 PM, "Sébastien Leblanc" wrote: > > That might be somewhat of an issue as I am running systemd and not the > default initscripts, therefore there is no rc.conf file on my > system... Also, `ps` does not report a syslog process running. > > Running `systemctl start syslog.service

Re: [arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM

2012-07-03 Thread Guus Snijders
2012/7/3 Sébastien Leblanc : > That might be somewhat of an issue as I am running systemd and not the > default initscripts, therefore there is no rc.conf file on my > system... Also, `ps` does not report a syslog process running. > > Running `systemctl start syslog.service` responded that the sysl

Re: [arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM

2012-07-03 Thread Jérôme M. Berger
Sébastien Leblanc wrote: > I deleted the /var/log/slim.log file, however the filesystem still > reports being full... That is weird. Sure, 27G files aren't a common > occurence. I hope my filesystem is not thrashed. > Have you restarted slim since deleting /var/log/slim.log? If not, the ru

Re: [arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM

2012-07-03 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
That might be somewhat of an issue as I am running systemd and not the default initscripts, therefore there is no rc.conf file on my system... Also, `ps` does not report a syslog process running. Running `systemctl start syslog.service` responded that the syslog service could not be found. And th

Re: [arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM

2012-07-03 Thread Mikkel Kristiansen
Hi Sébastien I have tried it once with SLiM, though the problem was that syslog-ng wasn't placed in DAEMONS in rc.onf... So you could check that. Sébastien Leblanc writes: > Dearest Arch Linux Mailing List, > > So I was installing a few packages on a fairly recent Arch install, > when I got an e

[arch-general] Huge log file for SLiM

2012-07-03 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
Dearest Arch Linux Mailing List, So I was installing a few packages on a fairly recent Arch install, when I got an error message from pacman: 8<8<8<8< : Retrieving packages from community... error: failed retrieving file '' from : Failed writing body (143