Re: 54 GB in /var/log!!

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 14:24 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:54:54 -0700, Craig White wrote:

On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 20:12 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
[....]
Obviously, I want to cut /var/log with electronic double-bitted
axes in both hands, to get to my user's GUI again; and to find the
source of the bloat and correct it.

What should I do first??
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from command line, cut down your large log files by locating them...

# find /var/log -type f -size +2000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print
$8 ": " $5 }'

I can't see for sure how many spaces, if any, there are between
"print" and "$8"; but I can experiment.

Meanwhile, however, I'm getting other troubles. One error message
says "invalid argument + to size".

The man page is way beyond me to slog through in less than about
six months; but I did find a + on it; so I tried using the other + key.
No joy.

I also get an error message saying "missing argument to -exec"
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it's just a simple command to print a list of all log files greater than
20 Mb.

If you can't manage to just type it out as it was given, just do 'ls
-lh /var/log' and you can inspect each file for size.
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and any file that is really large (i.e. /var/log/Xorg.0.log)

command line empty it...
# > /var/log/Xorg.0.log

if startx only works as root, it sounds as if some permission isn't
correct (possibly /etc/X11/xorg.conf is not 644, readable by all users).
Of course if that were the issue, /var/log/Xorg.0.log would tell you
that or if it were some other permissions issue, the problem would
probably be listed in /var/log/messages

I'm very weak on permissions; I can never remember the mnemonic
for those numbers. but I'll try "cd /etc/X11" and then "ls -l" to see if
that tells me anything either comprehensible or repeatable.
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read = 4
write = 2
exec = 1

rwxrwxrwx
^^^^^^^^^
| | |
| | other
| group
owner

thus rwx______ is 700
rw_rw_rw_ is 444
rw_r__r__ is 644
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On Fedora 9, it often is enough to just do something like # mv
/etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf-bak # shutdown now -r

and it is automatically rebuilt upon reboot

I tried that, and got only the dread "out of range" message. I'll
try again with "system-config-display" and "system-config-display --
reconfig" It would be a great help to get X back for my user, if only to
enable c&p between the CLI and Pan.

Many thanks to all for the help so far!
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seems odd because reports I have heard about Fedora 9 is that it
automatically builds xorg.conf if not present.

init 3
log in as root
system-config-display --reconfig
init 5

should do the trick though

Craig

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