log files growing rapidly

Submitted by rjrsinc on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 14:50 Pro Licensee

All of a sudden, the var directory seems to be growing, to the point where the server will freeze from lack of disk space. It seems to have coincided with my activation of bandwidth monitoring. I have deactivated it. Have you heard of this before?

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Closed (fixed)

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Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 14:56

If you enable full network-level bandwidth monitoring at Webmin -> Networking , this will generate a huge firewall log on a busy system. For virtualmin purposes, I recommend using domain-level monitoring instead, which can be setup at System Settings -> Bandwidth Monitoring.

Submitted by rjrsinc on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 16:08 Pro Licensee

I used System Settings -> Bandwidth Monitoring. It was my impression that would use the existing log files, and not create anything new? I am in trouble email will freeze again in a couple of hours because disk space is running out. Am I under attack or something? Can I shut off logging activities till the issues are resolved? I would rather have the end users have a gap in their traffic report than do with no email all weekend.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 11/19/2010 - 18:17

What log file is using up all the disk space? You can check with a command like :

cd /var
du -sh \*
du -sh \*/\*