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["John Andersen" <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Evens Garde <evans.garde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Bogdan Cristea wrote:
> >     I have a web server running Slackware on it and yesterday I have
> > experienced a failure due to the saturation of the root partition. After
> > investigating I have found that in /var/log the messages files (message.1,
> > message.2, ..., message.4) were extremely large. After cleaning up, I have
> > freed 2 GB, but today morning I have had the same failure, due to the same
> > reason: the message file was 2GB, eating completely my root partiton.
> >     Have you experienced similar behavior? Could you advise how to solve
> > this issue?
> > regards
>
> A.  Put /var on its own partition.
> B.  Read the error logs and find out what is producing
>    the error messages.

And C: Post on the Slackware list?  ;-)

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