Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:56:44PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these > grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the > filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must remove these >

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 08/11/2011 02:37 AM, David Baron wrote: On 08/11/2011 01:26 AM, David Baron wrote: This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Rob Owens
You could put /var/log in its own partition. That way when it's full it doesn't mess up anything else. Gnome gives an alert when a drive is nearly full (at least it does on my dad's Ubuntu machine). I'm not sure what the name of the daemon is, though. -Rob On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:56:44PM +0

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 22:56:44 +0300, David Baron wrote: > This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and > these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this > point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must > remove these two fil

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread David Baron
> On 08/11/2011 01:26 AM, David Baron wrote: > > This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and > > these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this > > point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must > > remove these two files

Re: Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 08/11/2011 01:26 AM, David Baron wrote: This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must remove these two files and reboot. The

Log File or Available Space Monitoring

2011-08-10 Thread David Baron
This is a not-so-sporadic problem: USB mouse begins spewing errors and these grow the syslog and daemon.log files until /var is full. At this point, the filesystem journal and the mail system are crippled. One must remove these two files and reboot. The bootup check will remove an inode or so an