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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [bash] script is filling up my /var/log Post 303027348 by soichiro on Thursday 13th of December 2018 07:19:06 PM
Old 12-13-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Do you really need to run ifconfig as root anyway? You shouldn't, if all you're doing is checking values.
Unless I am wrong... In Debian a regular user does not have access to ifconfig.

--- Post updated 12-14-18 at 12:19 AM ---

It took me all day but in the end, I was finally able to prevent the following log files to increase in size.
Code:
/var/log/kern.log 
/var/log/auth.log 
/var/log/daemon.log

I took care of pam_unix(sudo:session) flooding my /var/log/auth.log by adding the below setting in /etc/sudoers.d/soichiro
Code:
Defaults   !logfile, !syslog, !pam_session

To prevent /var/log/daemon.log to increase in size, I removed the printf in my script

To solve the /var/log/kern.log which was being flooding with messages from UFW like the below one, I executes the command sudo ufw logging off
Code:
Dec 13 17:44:29 debian kernel: [16119.856118] [UFW BLOCK] IN= OUT=enp6s0 SRC= etc etc

I hope this will help someone out-there and if someone has a better way to do this, I am all hears.
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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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