Do I have a log problem?

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#1 Sun, 07/31/2011 - 12:06
latitudehopper

Do I have a log problem?

Hello everyone. Apologies if this is a silly question but I have had virtual min running on a 20GB VPS and it is already 85% full, it was 7% this morning. I force a log rotations and it vanishes only to come back. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance?

Sun, 07/31/2011 - 12:24
andreychek

Howdy,

Well, my recommendation would be to figure out what's taking up all the space.

If it's related to a log file, it's likely that file would exist in /var/log, or one of the subdirectories there. You may want to poke around in there and see if there's any files larger than 1GB.

If there are -- you may want to take a look at that log, and see if there's a process generating a lot of log output.

-Eric

Sun, 07/31/2011 - 14:35
Locutus

The commands df -h and du -sh * can help greatly when trying to figure out where all that missing disk space is going. :)

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