[GLLUG] rootfs is filling up

[Taylor Burke]

It really wasn't anything useful, just deprecated gstreamer (IIRC)
object errors. I think I might take Chick's idea though- having a
login manager is nice, but login *scripts* don't spam /var with silly
errors. :)

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:45 AM, STeve Andre' <andres at msu.edu> wrote:
> If a log file is growing quickly, it's trying to tell you something.
> If it's a flat file, tail it out and start looking at it.
>
> Hopefully the messages it has are useful.  If they're cryptic,
> post a tail -50 or something.
>
> --STeve Andre'
>
>
> On 01/17/12 00:41, Taylor Burke wrote:
>>
>> This is a laptop, which is why I'm really, REALLY confused as to why
>> root keeps filling up so quickly. slim.log seems to be the culprit for
>> now, so I've disabled logging (it's a login manager, I don't think
>> it's necessary!) to alleviate the issue. If something else comes up
>> I'll let you guys know. Thanks for the help, Chick :)
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Chick Tower<c.e.tower at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> You could sort the list of files in /var/log by size (ls -aoS, or -aorS
>>> if
>>> you want the largest ones last) and see what's filling up the largest
>>> logs.
>>>  It might be the same error message over and over, which would help
>>> diagnose
>>> the problem.
>>>
>>> I'm not an expert on log files.  Are you using this PC (these PCs) as a
>>> server?  If your server is getting a lot of mail or spam, that might
>>> explain
>>> it.  A faulty configuration of some service might cause its log file to
>>> explode, too.
>>>
>>> If /var/log seems to be where all the space is being used, I don't think
>>> you
>>> need to post your package list for us.
>>>
>>>                               Chick
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/16/2012 11:27 PM, Taylor Burke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ok, so /var is taking up 4.1G, and it seems to be in /var/log. Dunno
>>>> why that happened, really. Where should I go from here?
>>>>
>
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