Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Michael Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 26.11.2008 > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > so... what is xconsole? > > > > In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root > > owned process on a user's display, and once you get it goin

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread s. keeling
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > so... what is xconsole? > > > > A very useful app if you can get it to work. It puts a small window > > on your display that scr

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Wagner
* s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 26.11.2008 > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 99.999% of the lines were comments.. except for this: > > # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility. To use it, > > #$ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...] > > *.=notice;*.=warn

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:12:20 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue,25.Nov.08, 18:58:19, Celejar wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) > > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ... > > > > > > so... what i

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Mer 26 novembre 2008 12:16, Paul Cartwright a écrit : >> In practice, it's very difficult to get X to let root put a root owned >> process on a user's display, and once you get it going, the next >> Debian release breaks your tweak, at least in my experience. > > great, thanks! > at least I fou

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 25 2008, s. keeling wrote: > >  so... what is xconsole? > > A very useful app if you can get it to work.  It puts a small window > on your display that scrolls /var/log/messages constantly in real > time.  It's very nice if you're changing something and want to know > the immediate

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,25.Nov.08, 18:58:19, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... > > > > so... what is xconsole? > > > > A very useful app if you can get it to work. It puts a small window > > on

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-25 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:46:41 +0100 (CET) "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... > > so... what is xconsole? > > A very useful app if you can get it to work. It puts a small window > on your display that scrolls /var/log/messages constantly in real >

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-25 Thread s. keeling
Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed November 19 2008, s. keeling wrote: > > >  I did a CTRL-ALT-F9 earlier that day, thinking I was switching to my > > > OTHER user logged in, and those lines were on the screen, instead of the > > > gdm login > > > > syslogd may be configured to send mes

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 19 2008, s. keeling wrote: > >  I did a CTRL-ALT-F9 earlier that day, thinking I was switching to my > > OTHER user logged in, and those lines were on the screen, instead of the > > gdm login > > syslogd may be configured to send messages to that pty also.  It's a > common prctice a

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-19 Thread s. keeling
Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I did a CTRL-ALT-F9 earlier that day, thinking I was switching to my OTHER > user logged in, and those lines were on the screen, instead of the gdm login syslogd may be configured to send messages to that pty also. It's a common prctice and probably n

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-18 Thread Clifford W. Hansen
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 14:03:23 Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Tue November 18 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > First, "tail -f /var/log/messages" to see exactly what all the new > > log entries are.  That should point you towards the offender. > > I rebooted, and it stopped doing it. I went back int

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 06:03, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 18 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: First, "tail -f /var/log/messages" to see exactly what all the new log entries are. That should point you towards the offender. I rebooted, and it stopped doing it. I went back into messages.0 , which was t

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 18 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > First, "tail -f /var/log/messages" to see exactly what all the new > log entries are.  That should point you towards the offender. I rebooted, and it stopped doing it. I went back into messages.0 , which was the LARGE file, and found lots, and lots, a

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/17/08 21:05, Paul Cartwright wrote: I don't know what changed, but I think an update must have changed a parameter or something. there are a bunch of log files that are now growing lots faster * bigger than they were 2 days ago: messages, kern.log, daemon.log, syslog. see: :/var/log# ls

/var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Cartwright
I don't know what changed, but I think an update must have changed a parameter or something. there are a bunch of log files that are now growing lots faster * bigger than they were 2 days ago: messages, kern.log, daemon.log, syslog. see: :/var/log# ls -l mess* -rw-r- 1 root adm 103306889 200