onurb Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Using Mandrake 9.0 I noticed something diffrent from 8.2: My /var/log/syslog and /var/ log/kernel/info get longer than 4 Gig each. A few days ago I cleared them, and today they are more then 2.5 Gig again ! My / partition is 20G but it fills up quickly as both those files grow over 8G ! Anyone an idea ? ( the /var/log/messages has a fixed length, as lines are added, the disapear at the top ) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Make sure logrotate is installed and running. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onurb Posted January 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 Where do I find this program ? It's not in my MCC softwaremanagement. Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 14, 2003 Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 It's not in my MCC softwaremanagement.In install? Are you sure it's not installed already? To see if installed look in Software Management>Remove Software or in a term;rpm -q logrotate To install; urpmi logrotate Make sure crond is running at boot in mcc>System>Services. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onurb Posted January 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2003 I foound a link to logrotate ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/lin...ide/SRPMS/SRPMS Thanks for the tip, Problem solved ! Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onurb Posted January 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2003 I got a golden Tip at the Mandrake-club Forum: Anacron ! As my computer is not on 24 hrs a day, cron-jobs like logrotate are forgotten because they run at 4 o'clock in the morning. Anacron detects forgotten cron-jobs and executes them shortly after boot. ( updatedb is another forgotten job ) It looks there are quiet some other jobs that have to run at night, once a week or once a month, if anyone has an idea what those jobs might be, let me know, I got curious now ! Anacron was installed by default in MDK 8.1 and 8.2 but not in MDK 9.0 For those of you who's computer is not up 24/7 : urpmi anacron (CD 3) Bruno Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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