UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

The /var/log/messages folder grows exponentially - in 3 hours it went up from 70 K to 6GB.
I have an application and it keeps writing such logs at very high speed.
Which of the following feature has to be disabled?
The entry in syslog.config is shown below

*.info;authpriv,auth,mail,cron,kern,local7.none,ftp.none,lpr.none,local0.none -/var/log/messages

Please let me know what your solution will be

Thanks
Regards
nathan

Hi,

first thing, you may begin by configuring logrotated for messages to rotate the file based on size rather than date (see man 8 logrotate, configuration files section for an example). This way you can force the rotation of messages and try to analyze it in smaller chuncks, so that you can nail down which daemon/subsystem is clogging up your messages files.

as an additional, contingent measure I suggest you drop the entry *.info from syslog.conf (it basically says tat all facilities must write to syslog with a priority of info, that is just a step below debug priority - the most verbose of all).

Try it and tell us what's going on.

see ya
fra