Re: log files getting bigger and bigger

2001-02-27 Thread Francois Massonneau
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, you wrote: > Are you letting your machine run overnite? The stock setup has a log No. > ratation that runs sometime in the early morning... I tried many many things, but none want to work. First I changed the settings in my /etc/crontab file and asked the programs to ru

Re: log files getting bigger and bigger

2001-02-26 Thread brian davison
Are you letting your machine run overnite? The stock setup has a log ratation that runs sometime in the early morning... brian:) *** At 06:58 PM 2/26/01 +0100, you wrote: >Hello, >How do you do to keep the size of the log files to a "normal" size ? >Do you run a script, ?? >The /

Re: log files getting bigger and bigger

2001-02-26 Thread Mike Burger
John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, you wrote: > > Check out your logrotate setup. YOu might need to add "daemon.log" to the > > logs that get rotated. > > > > > Strange... I don't have a "daemon.log." *shrug* Nor do I, but the original message mentioned "daemon.log"

Re: log files getting bigger and bigger

2001-02-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, you wrote: > Check out your logrotate setup. YOu might need to add "daemon.log" to the > logs that get rotated. > > Strange... I don't have a "daemon.log." *shrug* John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: log files getting bigger and bigger

2001-02-26 Thread Mike Burger
Check out your logrotate setup. YOu might need to add "daemon.log" to the logs that get rotated. On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Francois Massonneau wrote: > Hello, > How do you do to keep the size of the log files to a "normal" size ? > Do you run a script, ?? > The /var/log/daemon.log file is about 21me

Re: log files getting bigger and bigger

2001-02-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Francois Massonneau wrote: > Hello, > How do you do to keep the size of the log files to a "normal" size ? > Do you run a script, ?? > The /var/log/daemon.log file is about 21megas, /var/log/kern.log : 3 > megas, /var/log/messages : 35 megas, /var/log/syslog : 35 megas, > /va

Re: log files meaning

2001-02-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Mark Lo wrote: > Hi, > > What is the meaning of the following log files: especially for ns_forw > and ns_resp !!! > > > Feb 17 11:55:30 dns1 named[712]: ns_forw: sendto([198.41.0.4].53): > Operation not permitted > > Feb 17 11:56:18 dns1 named[712]: ns_resp: sendto([

Re: log files meaning

2001-02-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Silviu Cojocaru wrote: > > Stop sending HTML messages to the list. > > Oh yeah that helps... My good man if the HTML bothers you, filter it out. > That should help. Yeah, it was filtered. The response you saw was from my procmail recipe. I don't get any HTMl mail (except those I actual

Re: log files meaning

2001-02-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Silviu Cojocaru wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > > Stop sending HTML messages to the list. > > Oh yeah that helps... My good man if the HTML bothers you, filter it out. > That should help. > > Have a peaceful life. > > That is what I do now. So

Re: log files meaning

2001-02-18 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Silviu, Even though Ashleys comment was short and could be interpreted as harsh, it was still indirectly very helpful for you. I'll explain how: You said: "...if the HTML bothers you, filter it out." You'd be surprised if you knew how many people on this list actually do exactly that. If you se

Re: log files meaning

2001-02-18 Thread Silviu Cojocaru
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Stop sending HTML messages to the list. Oh yeah that helps... My good man if the HTML bothers you, filter it out. That should help. Have a peaceful life. -- Microsoft Windows(tm). A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen

Re: log files meaning

2001-02-18 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Mark Lo wrote: > Hi, What is the meaning of the following log files: especially > for ns_forw and ns_resp !!! Feb 17 11:55:30 dns1 named[712]: ns_forw: > sendto([198.41.0.4].53): Operation not permitted > Feb 17 11:56:18 dns1 named[712]: ns_resp: sendto([208.206.240.5].53): > Operation not

Re: Log Files

2000-10-05 Thread Jeff Grossman
I believe that is logrotate that is doing it. Do a man logrotate and read about it. Jeff -- Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > From: "Jeremy Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 11:45:02 +0800 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Log Files > > Hi

Re: Log Files

2000-10-05 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 23:45 Jeremy Russell wrote: >Can somebody please tell me how to turn off all Log File auto archiving? >ie I don't want the system to generate its own archive files like log.1 >etc... Including on startup. Look in /etc/cron.daily/ for a logwatch entry. -- Anthony E. Greene <

Re: Log Files

2000-10-05 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Jeremy: Check the /etc/logrotate.conf file. You can make your changes there. I am not sure if modifying it here will stop on startup or a syslog restart but you can stop log rotation here. I have tried this in the past but found my system day by day utilizing more and more resources towards syslo

Re: Log files....

2000-05-26 Thread Danny
If someone is tyring to log in as root you can find out by tail -f /var/log/messages Hope that mitght help. On Fri, 26 May 2000, UK Jaiswal wrote: > Hello Friends, > > Could somebody pls tell me in detail which log files to check so that I > know if somebody had been trying to hack into my s

Re: Log files....

2000-05-26 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Assuming you have setup and configured 'ipchains', you should find that info in /var/log/messages . Did you also install 'logcheck' from the same author as ipchains? If so, you will get the relevant information in your mail. Regards Gustav UK Jaiswal wrote: > > Hello Friends, > > Could somebo

Re: Log files....

2000-05-25 Thread Victor R. Cardona
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:44:45AM +0530, UK Jaiswal wrote: > Hello Friends, > > Could somebody pls tell me in detail which log files to check so that I > know if somebody had been trying to hack into my system and/or scanning > my ports using nmap etc.. > > Thankyou. > Uk /var/log/messages wil

Re: log files

2000-02-08 Thread John J. Donohue
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Martin A. Marques wrote: > I need to log the trafic that comes in throught he ports 80 and 7500 (and > others in the future). How is this done? I can't use TCPdump, because it puts > the eth0 in promiscous mode, and I would have problems with the net admins > here. ^

Re: log files

2000-02-07 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 06:09:54PM -0300, Martin A. Marques wrote: > I need to log the trafic that comes in throught he ports 80 and 7500 > (and others in the future). How is this done? I can't use TCPdump, > because it puts the eth0 in promiscous mode, and I would have > problems with the net adm

Re: Log Files

1998-04-22 Thread Chuck Carson
It is always a good idea to 'pipe null' into a log file to clean it out. I do not think it would matter to these two but to others it does. To do this, issue the following command: : > This will reduce the file size to 0... CC -Original Message- From: Michael Segulja <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Log Files

1998-04-22 Thread RTS
my default crontab file had examples on trimming file sizes. Personally we zip up the files at the end of each month and stop the syslog program and then restart it. Randy At 07:54 AM 4/22/98 -0500, you wrote: >I just noticed that my log files are getting pretty large. The >/var/log/message