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Controlling /var/log/messages

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
 
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SCROLLKEEPER-REBUILDDB(8)				      System Manager's Manual					 SCROLLKEEPER-REBUILDDB(8)

NAME
scrollkeeper-rebuilddb - rebuild the scrollkeeper document catalog database SYNOPSIS
scrollkeeper-rebuilddb [-p path ] [-v] [-q] DESCRIPTION
This rebuilds the ScrollKeeper database from the original OMF metadata files and documents. Under normal situations, this tool is not nec- essary. It is useful however if the database becomes corrupt, which could be caused by interruption of ScrollKeeper during an update of the database. Errors and warnings are logged to /var/log/scrollkeeper.log. OPTIONS
-p path Use path as the ScrollKeeper database directory. -v Verbose. Show warnings and error messages in addition to logging them to /var/log/scrollkeeper.log. -q Run in quiet mode, suppressing output of all but the most serious warning and error messages to STDOUT. Note that most output to the log file will be unchanged. FILES
/var/lib/scrollkeeper/scrollkeeper_docs /var/lib/scrollkeeper/TOC/<docnumber> /var/lib/scrollkeeper/<locale>/scrollkeeper_cl.xml /var/lib/scrollkeeper/<locale>/scrollkeeper_extended_cl.xml /var/log/scrollkeeper.log AUTHOR
Laszlo Kovacs <laszlo.kovacs@sun.com> Dan Mueth <d-mueth@uchicago.edu> SEE ALSO
scrollkeeper-config(1), scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid(1), scrollkeeper.conf(5), scrollkeeper(7), scrollkeeper-preinstall(8), scrollkeeper- update(8) scrollkeeper Dec 5, 2001 SCROLLKEEPER-REBUILDDB(8)